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Lebanon Valley vs. Penn State

Lebanon Valley and Penn State first met in 1905 and have played 20 times; Penn State leads the series 20–⁠0. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Penn State 10–⁠0, and Penn State has won the last 20.

Lebanon Valley wins
0
Penn State wins
20
Ties
0
First meeting
1905
Longest streak
20 Penn State
Current streak
20 Penn State
Last 10 meetings
Penn State 10–⁠0
Most recent
1935

The series at a glance

’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s0–⁠3
1910s0–⁠1
1920s0–⁠10
1930s0–⁠6
Average margin
32.3 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Penn State
20–⁠0 Penn State’s record at home
Shutouts
14

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Penn State’s biggest win1920: Penn State 109, Lebanon Valley 7by 102 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Lebanon Valley and Penn State, 1905 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 Harrisburg telegraph's story of the 1915 game: SATURDAY RESULTS SURPRISING

    1915 · Harrisburg telegraph, Harrisburg, Pa., Oct 4, 1915

  • The New-York tribune's story of the 1922 game: Penn State Beats Lebanon Valley in Ragged Game. 32-6

    1922 · New-York tribune, Oct 15, 1922

  • The Evening star's story of the 1924 game: Foot Ball Results LOCAL.

    1924 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Sep 28, 1924

  • The Evening star's story of the 1930 game

    1930 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 7, 1930

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

Oct 5, 1935Penn State 12, Lebanon Valley 6at Penn State
Oct 6, 1934Penn State 13, Lebanon Valley 0at Penn State
Oct 7, 1933Penn State 32, Lebanon Valley 6at Penn State
Oct 1, 1932Penn State 27, Lebanon Valley 0at Penn State
Oct 3, 1931Penn State 19, Lebanon Valley 6at Penn State
Oct 4, 1930Penn State 27, Lebanon Valley 0at Penn State
Oct 5, 1929Penn State 15, Lebanon Valley 0at Penn State
Sep 29, 1928Penn State 25, Lebanon Valley 0at Penn State
Sep 24, 1927Penn State 27, Lebanon Valley 0at Penn State
Oct 2, 1926Penn State 35, Lebanon Valley 0at Penn State
Sep 26, 1925Penn State 14, Lebanon Valley 0at Penn State
Sep 27, 1924Penn State 47, Lebanon Valley 3at Penn State
Sep 29, 1923Penn State 58, Lebanon Valley 0at Penn State
Oct 14, 1922Penn State 32, Lebanon Valley 6at Penn State
Sep 24, 1921Penn State 53, Lebanon Valley 0at Penn State
Oct 23, 1920Penn State 109, Lebanon Valley 7at Penn State
Oct 2, 1915Penn State 13, Lebanon Valley 0at Penn State
Oct 26, 1907Penn State 75, Lebanon Valley 0at Penn State
Sep 22, 1906Penn State 24, Lebanon Valley 0at Penn State
Sep 16, 1905Penn State 23, Lebanon Valley 0at Penn State

Every game is listed as played on the field.