TCU at Penn State

Saturday, October 24, 1953

Penn State beat TCU 27–⁠21. It was their first meeting; after it, Penn State led the series 1–⁠0.

AwayTCU3–⁠7 in 1953
21
HomePenn State6–⁠3 in 1953
27

Finallow 47°F, 0.23 in. of rainAttendance 27,966

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Radios Passes Give Penn State Victory Over TCU, 27-21

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 25, 1953, page 71

    Read the text

    Radios Passes Give Penn State Victory Over TCU, 27–⁠21 STATE COLLEGE, Pa, Oct 24.-Tony Radios capped a pin point passing performance by sneaking over for a third-period touchdown to give Penn State a 27–⁠2l victory over fired-up Texas Christian in wide open intersectional game today. Radios. whose arm is Penn States best offensive weapon, passed for two touchdoWns and helped to set up the last as TCU twice rallied to tie the score. Spotting the home team two touchdowns by the early part of the second quarter, the Texans tied it up at 14–⁠14 at halftime and at 21–⁠21 in the third period on a two-way passing perform ance by Ronald ClinkScale and Ray McKown. But they couldn’t match the last score as a fine drizzling rain forced them to fall back on their running attack. Fsna Fsnas sfata Gn55’tian : 4 + 15 81 Scoring: TCU. ouchdowns-sanford d, Finney, McKown. Conversions = Nc straub,, Moore, Clarity, Radios. Conversions-Garrity ~. Moore.

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)

Penn State 67% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Penn State leads 3–⁠1 in four meetings, counting the three since this game.

Recent meetings
1978Penn State 58, TCU 0
1971Penn State 66, TCU 14
1954TCU 20, Penn State 7
1953Penn State 27, TCU 21

Around this game