Delaware vs. Pennsylvania

Delaware and Pennsylvania have 6 meetings on file, the first in 1919; the series is tied 3–⁠3 in the games on file. Over the last 6 meetings it’s even at 3–⁠3, and Delaware has won the last 3.

Delaware wins
3
Pennsylvania wins
3
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1919
Longest streak
3 Pennsylvania
Current streak
3 Delaware
Last 10 meetings
even at 3–⁠3
Most recent
2024

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1910s0–⁠1
1920s0–⁠2
1980s1–⁠0
2010s1–⁠0
2020s1–⁠0
Average margin
42.5 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Delaware
2–⁠0 Delaware’s record at home
At Pennsylvania
3–⁠1 Pennsylvania’s record at home
Shutouts
3

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Delaware’s biggest win1981: Delaware 40, Pennsylvania 6by 34 points
  2. Pennsylvania’s biggest win1921: Pennsylvania 89, Delaware 0by 89 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Delaware and Pennsylvania, 1919 on130015001700192019401960198020002020

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.

From the newspapers

  • The Evening journal's story of the 1919 game: Delaware BOYS DISPLAY GANENESS Overwhelmed by Penn Ma chine, Blue and Gold Fight With Great Pluck. FRANKLIN FIELD SCORE WAS 80 TO 0

    1919 · Evening journal, Delaware, Oct 13, 1919

  • The Evening journal's story of the 1920 game: Delauure Loses Opening Game to Penn. BY 35 TO 0

    1920 · Evening journal, Sep 27, 1920

  • The Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial's story of the 1921 game: PENN SWAMPS BLUE AND GOLD ELEVEN Delaware Outclassed on Frank lin Field in Miserable Exhi- bition of Football.

    1921 · Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial, Delaware, Sep 26, 1921

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.

Every game

Sep 21, 2024Delaware 29, Pennsylvania 22at Delaware
Sep 21, 2019Delaware 28, Pennsylvania 27at Delaware
Nov 7, 1981Delaware 40, Pennsylvania 6at Pennsylvania
Sep 24, 1921Pennsylvania 89, Delaware 0at Pennsylvania
Sep 25, 1920Pennsylvania 35, Delaware 0at Pennsylvania
Oct 11, 1919Pennsylvania 89, Delaware 0at Pennsylvania

Every game is listed as played on the field.