Fordham vs. Penn State

Fordham and Penn State have 3 meetings on file, the first in 1946; Penn State leads the series 3–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Penn State 3–⁠0, and Penn State has won the last 3.

Fordham wins
0
Penn State wins
3
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1946
Longest streak
3 Penn State
Current streak
3 Penn State
Last 10 meetings
Penn State 3–⁠0
Most recent
1953

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1940s0–⁠2
1950s0–⁠1
Average margin
50 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Fordham
0–⁠1 Fordham’s record at home
At Penn State
2–⁠0 Penn State’s record at home
Shutouts
2

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Fordham and Penn State, 1946 on13001500170019501960197019801990200020102020

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 star's story of the 1947 game: Penn State Runs Wild |0ver Fordham, $50; Rams Worst Rout

    1947 · Evening star, Oct 12, 1947

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

Nov 7, 1953Penn State 28, Fordham 21at Penn State
Oct 11, 194712Penn State 75, Fordham 0at Fordham
Nov 2, 1946Penn State 68, Fordham 0at Penn State

Every game is listed as played on the field.