California vs. Pennsylvania

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

1. California’s biggest win1953: California 40, Pennsylvania 0by 40 points
2. Ranked showdown1951: California 35, Pennsylvania 0No. 5 California at No. 19 Pennsylvania
3. Ranked showdown1950: California 14, Pennsylvania 7No. 20 Pennsylvania at No. 9 California

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from California’s side (Waldorf 3–⁠0 against Munger). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

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  1924 · Daily Kennebec journal, Augusta, Me., Jan 2, 1925

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  1927 · Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, Texas, Jan 1, 1928

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  1929 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 20, 1929

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  1950 · Evening star, Oct 8, 1950

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  1951 · The Daily Alaska empire, Oct 1, 1951

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 earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

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  The 1929 game

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  The 1929 game

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  The 1929 game

From the rivalry’s and its games’ categories on Wikimedia Commons (free licenses only, each credited).

Every game is listed as played on the field.

• California vs. USC108 meetings, California 31–⁠72–⁠5
• California vs. Stanford105 meetings, California 45–⁠54–⁠6
• California vs. Washington99 meetings, California 41–⁠55–⁠3
• California vs. UCLA95 meetings, California 35–⁠59–⁠1
• Pennsylvania vs. Cornell110 meetings, Pennsylvania 65–⁠40–⁠5
• Pennsylvania vs. Princeton95 meetings, Pennsylvania 31–⁠63–⁠1
• Pennsylvania vs. Columbia84 meetings, Pennsylvania 61–⁠22–⁠1
• Pennsylvania vs. Lafayette80 meetings, Pennsylvania 55–⁠21–⁠4