Marietta vs. Penn State

Marietta and Penn State first met in 1924 and have played 3 times; Penn State leads the series 3–⁠0. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Penn State 3–⁠0, and Penn State has won the last 3.

Marietta wins
0
Penn State wins
3
Ties
0
First meeting
1924
Longest streak
3 Penn State
Current streak
3 Penn State
Last 10 meetings
Penn State 3–⁠0
Most recent
1926

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1920s0–⁠3
Average margin
27.7 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Penn State
3–⁠0 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 Marietta and Penn State, 1924 on13001500170019401960198020002020

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 1926 game: FOOT BALL RESULTS

    1926 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 10, 1926

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 9, 1926Penn State 48, Marietta 6at Penn State
Oct 17, 1925Penn State 13, Marietta 0at Penn State
Nov 22, 1924Penn State 28, Marietta 0at Penn State

Every game is listed as played on the field.