Brown at Pennsylvania

Saturday, October 20, 1956

Pennsylvania beat Brown 14–⁠7. It was their 25th meeting; after it, Pennsylvania led the series 21–⁠3–⁠1.

AwayBrown5–⁠4 in 1956
7
HomePennsylvania4–⁠5 in 1956
14

FinalHigh 68°F, low 43°F

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Penn AerioIs Connect To Defeat Brown, 14-7

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 21, 1956, page 63

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    Penn AerioIs Connect To Defeat Brown, 14–⁠7 PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 20 (P). An alert Penn team turned loose an unexpected aerial at tack today to beat Brown lat in an Ivy League football game before 1915 fans in Franklin Field and rack up its second victory in four starts after a 19-game losing streak. The Quakers cinched the win with a third period score that came by virtue of a blocked Brown punt on the Bruins goal line. Browns lone score came in the same period with a recovered tumble on the Penn 28yard line setting up the touch down. Capt. Pete KebliSh was the man Of the hour for Penn along with Rich Ross, the pass-pitching quarterback, and Frank Riepl, jack-of-all trades half back, who romped for a breath taking 1O8-yard opening kick off score against Notre Dame last year. Midway through the third period, Penn drove deep into Brown territory and Ross at tempted a jump pass to Dick Schafer. Dick Beland of Brown intercepted but the Bruins couldn’t move. Russ Frazier’s punt was blocked by Keblish and

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)

Brown 53% to win. Pennsylvania won as Elo’s underdog.

Pennsylvania leads 50–⁠21–⁠1 in 72 meetings, counting the 47 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Pennsylvania 28, Brown 21
2024Pennsylvania 38, Brown 28
2023Brown 30, Pennsylvania 26
2022Brown 34, Pennsylvania 31
2021Pennsylvania 45, Brown 17
2019Pennsylvania 38, Brown 36

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