Harvard at Princeton

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  Evening star, November 6, 1960, page 80

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  STATISTICS champions, for the first time since 1856 and only the second time in II years. Yale started slowly but picked up momentum. Penn, despite the brilliant efforts Of Porter Shreve and Ed Shaw, appeared helpless most Of the time against Yale’s hard-hitting line and feet backs. Singleton scored two Of Yale’s five touchdowns. Ken Wolfe ran “a yards for another. Lou Muller returned punt Al yards and John Stocking closed the scoring by taking a 5-yard pass from Bill Leckonby. Shaw accounted for all of Penn’s scoring. He kicked a 40-yard field goal and, with only 80 seconds left, grabbed a 25-yard pass from George Koval. Yale’s 1923 team completed an eight-game schedule with a ! perfect record, the best in the Ellis modern history. The victory kept Yale in a first-place tie with Princeton, which beat Harvard, 14–⁠12. The two leaders meet here next Saturday. PENN -- 3, o o O. q YALE --------- 8 8 16 Ga Yale-Wolfe “a. run (run failed. Penn-FG. Shaw 20. Yale-Muller Al. punt return (run Yale~sinsleton 4. run twolfe. pass from Singleton). Yale-Singieton is. run (Hutcherson, pass from Singleton. Yale--Stockine B, pass from Leckonhy fpass failed. Penn-shav IS. pass from Koval (pass failedl Attendance-22,752.

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Princeton leads 51–⁠37–⁠7 in 95 meetings, counting the 42 since this game.