Penn State at Ohio State

Saturday, October 20, 1956

Penn State beat No. 5 Ohio State 7–⁠6. It was their second meeting; after it, Penn State led the series 2–⁠0 as played.

AwayPenn State6–⁠2–⁠1 in 1956
7
Home5Ohio State6–⁠3 in 1956
6

FinalHigh 73°F, low 55°F, 0.07 in. of rainAttendance 82,584

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: WIN, LOSE OR DNAW By FRANCIS sTANN With Prophecies Down

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 22, 1956, page 1 (results column)

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    WIN, LOSE OR DNAW By FRANCIS sTANN With Prophecies Down THESE DAYS THE SCHOLARS who play football are suited up early that all preseason top ten” representations read like history and perhaps reminder is in order Oklahoma Michigan State were picked onetwo and there be serious quarrel with the soohsaying this pair But some of the rest For instance Notre Dame was pretty generally ranked No Now the Irish aren’t close maybe not even in the top 90 They beat Indiana that’s all in four out ings last Saturdays being by far the disastrous Score: Michigan State, AZ Notre Dame IA. Likewise the occult set caught its prophecies down when Maryland ranked No. A. AS of today the onceproud Terrapns have beaten team Wake Forest BY 60 and lost to four Even Jim Tatum at North Carolina got fat Saturday when his heretofore wness Tar Heels licked Maryland by whopping 34–⁠6 score It’s probably going to get before gets better for the Terrapins. Next week: Tennessee Then Kentucky Clemson South Carolina North Carolina State Con- CeaOy maryland may wind up with victory games OHIO STATE RANKED NO. S. got knocked off nv Penn state unmarked Stanford No. has been twice beaten DUO Army No. T. once by Michigan 48–⁠14 and Saturday by Syracuse. What happened to these so-caed powerhouses renans 70 De FULLY explained In the of Notre Dame however most coacheS and observers greatly puzzled Too many sopnomores for Paul Honung the good back to carry. Maryands material and depth seems to have been over rated by nearly everybody including Tatm and his Tommy Mont Probably the Terrapins would have bee f Deter Frank Tambureo had been drafted but hardly NO. IN the Nation Mont got break when after depending so much Tambureo he had tn fall bocL 81 trio OF young quarerbacks almost totally lacking in experience. “ ee carr SnaVely recently debunked the offensive merits of e Spht-I unless coach has unusually good material including whale of quarterback” Snavelv said in not ioosh to install the and spltT instead of the single wing That goes for pro we’ll as college teams” Old Grumpy might be right at that Tatum who is ID is ~ of he TT also IA = % . N1ont’ THE REDSKINS WHO ARE having troubles of their own could be suffering from lack of that real oood too Dorow rarely made the Redskins move ana e0aro as smooth as any ball handler is Handicapped bv @ size Its got to be tough spot pass receivers over zOO ana 27O pound giants which must account for inevitable overthrows and interruptions Unbeaten Ohio States 7–⁠6 loss to Penn State was 70 the raod folks Of Columbus It was known that S’ate was no patsy but still Army had to 90 all ont e Lions Two weeks earlier, 147 and after what NAeingan oo TO the Cadets the Big Ten as usual was Eateo Tar stronger than anything in the East Army was the choice to rule the East inst W yai’ OUT the CADETS may not live up to expectations oi e second straight season. There ample time for Heo Blak TO whip the West Pointers into pretty good team before the Navy gamean art with Baik Il MIGHT remnded-out up to now Army has been spotty dis THE GENIUS OF WEST POINT is having some of the same trouble he had in 1855 II you recall Bak converted MS AH-Amerca end Don Holleder into ost three games before the experiment eed and the Cadets upset Navy in the big As result there was no clear-cut Eastern champion. ms year 5lak. who must be the Casey Stengel Of college football with his tinkernp moved HaIfnack BOD kyasky to quarter So far the overall results have not been precisely satisfactory Kyasky an oft-njured veteran mad horrible time in the Michigan game with his fumblng Il never quarterback so tight one coach reported “Kyasky was as tight drum head” At one time Michigan led Army 4s-o The Cadets got on the board only the end against the Wolverines iourtn-stringes II you discount those or less counterfeit ouchdowns Army. TO loser TO Syracuse hasn’t scored in two consecutive The Black Knights Of the Dayis-Blanchard do better in two minutes =

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)

Ohio State 74% to win. Penn State pulled the upset.

Officially, Ohio State leads 26–⁠14; as played, 27–⁠14 in 41 meetings, counting the 39 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Ohio State 38, Penn State 14
2024Ohio State 20, Penn State 13
2023Ohio State 20, Penn State 12
2022Ohio State 44, Penn State 31
2021Ohio State 33, Penn State 24
2020Ohio State 38, Penn State 25

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