Pennsylvania at Army

Saturday, November 23, 1901

Army beat Pennsylvania 24–⁠0. It was their first meeting; after it, Army led the series 1–⁠0.

AwayPennsylvania10–⁠5 in 1901
0
HomeArmy5–⁠1–⁠2 in 1901
24

Final

In the newspapers

  • The Northern Wisconsin advertiser's story: PENNSYLVANIA NOWHERE. Football Team Dtsastrously Defeated by West Point.

    Northern Wisconsin advertiser, Wabeno, Wis., November 28, 1901, page 8

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    PENNSYLVANIA NOWHERE. Football Team Dtsastrously Defeated by West Point. West Point. Nov. A.-The uniyer. sity Of Pennsylvania football team was defeated by the West Point military academy yesterday and incidentally suffered One of the worst defeats in its football history. The score of “a to Q shows how West Point outplayed the Pennsylvanians. The visitors put up stir game, however, and were beat en- simply because West Point played a superior article of football. The end Of the first half was West Poinr II, Pennsylvania 0; the final score be. ing West Point “a, Pennsylvania 0. Annapolis, Nov. 21.-Columbia defeated the naval cadets by score VI 6 to 8.

  • The Wood County reporter's story: pennsylvania NOWHERE. Football Team D;sastrously Defeated by West Point.

    Wood County reporter, Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis., November 28, 1901, page 7

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    pennsylvania NOWHERE. Football Team D;sastrously Defeated by West Point. West Point, Nov. 21.-The univer sity of Pennsylvania football team was defeated by the West Point military academy yesterday and incidentally suffered one of the worst defeats in its football history. The score of “a to o shows how West Point outplayed the Pennsylvanians. The visitors put UP stiff game. however. and were beat en- simply because West Point played

  • The The watchman and southron's story: West Point Defeats Pennsylvania

    The watchman and southron, Sumter, S.C., November 27, 1901, page 2

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    West Point Defeats Pennsylvania West Point. n. Y, Nov. 2o.-The University of Pennsylvania football team was defeated by West Point Military Academy today and incident ally suffered one of the worst defeats in her football history. The score, “A to 0, shows how West Point out played the Pennsylvania eleven. The visitors put up stiff game, however, and were beaten simply because West Point played superior article of foot ball.

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)

Pennsylvania 58% to win. Army won as Elo’s underdog.

Army leads 13–⁠4–⁠2 in 19 meetings, counting the 18 since this game.

Recent meetings
1985Army 41, Pennsylvania 3
1984Army 48, Pennsylvania 13
1955Army 40, Pennsylvania 0
1954Army 35, Pennsylvania 0
1953Army 21, Pennsylvania 14
1952Army 14, Pennsylvania 13

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