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Penn State vs. St. Bonaventure

Penn State and St. Bonaventure have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1910; Penn State leads the series 4–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Penn State 4–⁠0, and Penn State has won the last 4.

Penn State wins
4
St. Bonaventure wins
0
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1910
Longest streak
4 Penn State
Current streak
4 Penn State
Last 10 meetings
Penn State 4–⁠0
Most recent
1922

The series at a glance

’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1910s3–⁠0
1920s1–⁠0
Average margin
58.3 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Penn State
4–⁠0 Penn State’s record at home
Shutouts
4

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 Penn State and St. Bonaventure, 1910 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 The New York herald's story of the 1922 game: Penn State Eleven Opens Campaign With Easy Win Nittany Lions Romp Over St. Bonaventures, 54 to 0.

    1922 · The New York herald, New York, Sep 24, 1922

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 23, 1922Penn State 54, St. Bonaventure 0at Penn State
Oct 13, 1917Penn State 99, St. Bonaventure 0at Penn State
Nov 4, 1911Penn State 46, St. Bonaventure 0at Penn State
Nov 5, 1910Penn State 34, St. Bonaventure 0at Penn State

Every game is listed as played on the field.