Cornell at Princeton
Saturday, October 24, 1953 Share
Cornell beat Princeton 26–19. It was their 36th meeting; after it, Princeton led the series 22–13–1.
FinalHigh 70°F, low 38°F
In the newspapers

Evening star, October 25, 1953, page 69
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Cornell Tops Princeton 26–19; Army Routs Columbia 4o7 Brown Beats Holy Cross, go, On Tackles 83-Yurd Dash ruggedly by Bruce Hunt and John (Obie) O’Brien. The ball Squirted out of his arms straight into the air. Klaess grabbed it and that proved the ball game. That play stalled the Crusaders who had moved 43 yards and seemed headed for a score of their own. Klaess is one of 10 Brown foot ball players who were barred from competition last year. declared ineligible for alledgedly receiving financial aid from alumni. He hadn’t played in any of Browns previous four games this season because of being on probation-a condition from which he was freed only last week. Brown --- o q 6---6 Brown scoring: Touchdown-Klaess.

The Key West citizen. (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, Florida, October 26, 1953, page 1 (results column)
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‘Handkerchiefs IOf Footballers Get Workout NEW YORK R-Monday’s foot ball wash, with 4 heavy quota OF damp handkerchiefs: Who said the modern college football player had become a hardened, caIloused cookie no long er susceptible to the ‘‘die-for-dearold Rutgers” spirit7 Notre Dame players “cried like babies” after Coach Frank Leahy was stricken at halftime intermission of the Georgia Tech game. {. then they went out and won one for Leahy, 27–14. At Lafayette, Ind, fullback Dan Poboiewsh. who scored the Purdue TOUCHDOWN which broke Michigan States 8-game winning streak 60, said: Il felt SO good / just lay there and bawled.” Shades Of knute Rockne. Ironically, Pobojewsh spent two years at Michigan State but nobody looked at him. So he packed up and moved to Purdue. Purdue qualities at the sports No. l spoiler. Il was the Boiler makers who wrecked Notre Danes four-year, 3S-game dynasty in 1850 :. Quarterback Ed Gramigna of Audubon, NJ, had never tried a | field goal in his life until he kicked the 35-yarder which gave Penn a s-6 victory over Navy with Sc Sec onds to play. The referees whistle nullified two of the days most dramatic runs. Harvard’s Dick CLASSIFY hauled kickoff back los yards only to have a clipping penalty called. Leroy Belden of Michigan State returned the kick off following Purdue’s score 81 yards for a touchdown but it was killed by q similar penalty. Two long ones that counted, though, were Ray Martins 100 yard run with an intercepted pass in Tennessee’s 596 verdict over Louisville and Harold Lotions s. yard sprint for Mississippi in the $50 rout of Arkansas. But for sheer packaging, you couldn’t beat the, stunts at Princeton, NJ, and Newark, Del. At Princeton, Cornell’s Dick jackson handled the ball only four times, yet had scoring runs of go and 62 yards in the 26–19 win over the Tigers. The game produced four runs of more than so yards in six minutes. i. AT Newark, Delaware’s Frank Ser |pico must have set some sort of record in scoring 13 points in ten seconds of actual playing time. /. He caught a touchdown pass, missed the extra point, kicked off, raced to end zone to recover the ball touched by Connecticut, then successfully converted. Final score: Delaware 80, Connecticut Z. The normally forgotten men the linemen-came in for re. markedly big share of the head lines. It was a Notre Dame tackle, Art Hunter, who recovered Techs wild pass in the Georgians’ end zone for the third Irish touch down which Tech Coach Bobby Dodd said won the game. Tackle Jack Gunlock grabbed a Kansas tumble in the air and ran 80 yards for the touchdown which gave Southern Methodist a 14–6 triumph. At Providence, RI, a reserve tackle, Bill Klaess, ran SO yards with a tumble for Browns go upset of favored Holy Cross. John Hopkins, Navy end, went IS yards with a wild pass for the Middies’ only score against Penn Ken Buck, College of the Pacific flankman, rushed Mar quette’s Dick Shockey, batted the ball in the air. caught it and lum-
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.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Princeton 75% to win. Cornell pulled the upset.
The series
Every Cornell–Princeton gamePrinceton leads 54–30–2 in 86 meetings, counting the 50 since this game.
| 2025 | Cornell 20, Princeton 17 | |
| 2024 | Cornell 49, Princeton 35 | |
| 2023 | Princeton 14, Cornell 3 | |
| 2022 | Princeton 35, Cornell 9 | |
| 2021 | Princeton 34, Cornell 16 | |
| 2019 | Princeton 21, Cornell 7 |
Around this game
Cornell
- Next gamevs. ColumbiaOct. 31, 1953
- SeasonCornell in 1953
- ProgramCornell history and records
Princeton
- Next gamevs. BrownOct. 31, 1953
- SeasonPrinceton in 1953
- ProgramPrinceton history and records

