Syracuse at Penn State

• 

  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 18, 1953, page 67

  Read the text

  STATE COLLEGE, Pa, Oct. l7.-Jim Garrity picked up a blocked punt in the final minute of play and raced “a yards for touchdown today as Penn State dropped favored Syracuse from the unbeaten ranks 20–⁠14. Penn State trailed until Tackle Dante DeFalco stormed through to block Ed Albright’S punt deep in Syracuse territory with time running out. Earlier, State, which had trailed through almost three quarters, put together a 55-yard ground often Sive to tie the score at 14–⁠14 before 21,500 excited fans. Syracuse, with only a tie with Boston University to mar its first three games-the Orange had beaten Temple and Ford ham-got of to a lead in the first quarter when a 42-yard passplay from Quarterback Pat

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Penn State leads 43–⁠23–⁠5 in 71 meetings, counting the 40 since this game.