Maryland at Penn State

Saturday, November 5, 1960

Penn State beat Maryland 28–⁠9. It was their seventh meeting; after it, Penn State led the series 7–⁠0.

AwayMaryland6–⁠4 in 1960
9
HomePenn State7–⁠3 in 1960
28

FinalHigh 55°F, low 40°FAttendance 30,126

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: MARYLAND Penn States Power Eorns 28-9 Victory

    Evening star, District of Columbia, November 6, 1960, page 83

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    MARYLAND Penn States Power Eorns 28–⁠9 Victory back downfield. Brown appeared to have a touchdown pass in reach in the end zone, but Jonas made the angle and intercepted it. 1 Hoax then fumbled and Mona recovered in the end zone for a touchdown. Novak’s pass for two points was blocked. Later Brown fumbled after making five yards with q wide pitchout, and Dick Pae recovcred for Penn State on the Maryland %. The Terps were guilty Of sloppy tackling as Hoax went 18 yards to the five, and Tor ris scored on the next play Hoak’s pass for two points was blocked. The Terps had q new life in the fourth quarter when Collins punt grazed Torris and Jimmy Davidson recovered fol- Maryland on the Terps’ IL Novak hit Scott and Collins with passes that gained II ano lS yards, and Collins took an other that gave Maryland q first down on the six. But the Terps were stopped short oi the goal. 1t didn’t make too much difference. for Maryland. three-game winning streak has expired many minutes earlier haaylaFR sEsa sFRrr – sns 81 Penn state-Kerr. run toppermai Maryiand-Fo. Scott taM. Penn state-Kerr. /. run topperman Msryland-Mons. recovered fumbl, Penn statewrorris’ eqSi 5. run tDas failedl. MARYLAND Left end – Collins. Rae. kaufman Wing. Left tackle-Bennett. Barlund. Left suard-crossan’ Hrezo. DENIM center-Hacker. Dietrich. Right guard – Kirchiro. Janowsk RiEbt tackle-sankovich, Shoals. Right end-Rock, Scott, Poniatowski. Quarterback-Betty. Novak, Davidson Left half-Brown, Banner. Condie. Right half-Cloud, Mona, Piper. Fullback-DraSs, Van Keenan,. Smith. PENN STATE Left end – Oppermann, Alexande Davis. Left tackle-Barber. sieminski. Left guard-Blassenstein, Berfield, wi son. center-Hurman. Saul, Raisig. Right guard--Popp, Robinson. Hart. Right end-.-Mitinger, Truitt, Schwab Quarterback-Hall. Hoax. Left hah-Jonas, Gursky, Caye. Right half--Kerr, Pae. Kline Fullback-Sobszak, Torris. Hayes.

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.

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Our ratings (scores only)

Penn State 73% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Penn State leads 44–⁠3–⁠1 in 48 meetings, counting the 41 since this game.

Recent meetings
2024Penn State 44, Maryland 7
2023Penn State 51, Maryland 15
2022Penn State 30, Maryland 0
2021Penn State 31, Maryland 14
2020Maryland 35, Penn State 19
2019Penn State 59, Maryland 0

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