Boston College at Harvard

Saturday, October 4, 1919

Harvard beat Boston College 17–⁠0. It was their second meeting; after it, Harvard led the series 2–⁠0.

AwayBoston College5–⁠3 in 1919
0
HomeHarvard9–⁠0–⁠1 in 1919
17

FinalHigh 64°F, low 49°FAttendance 16,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: HARVARD VICTOR, l7.O Two Marches to Touchdowans and Horween's Field Goal Beat Boston College.

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 5, 1919, page 29

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    HARVARD VICTOR, l7.O Two Marches to Touchdowans and Horween’s Field Goal Beat Boston College. CAMBRIDGE. Mass, October A. Two Harvard marches. one for Is yards and one for Is yards, across Boston’s Colleges goal line for touchdowns and a field goal by r. Harween from the 20 yard line, gave the Crimson TO-DAY it’s second foot ball victory Of the season. II to o. A 2o-yard penalty against. Boston College for interfering with fair eaton gave Harvard the bail on the visitors’ zo-yard line in the fourth period. and five rushes. including a fine dash by Casey around left end. brought the sec ond touchdown. ~

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 text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Harvard 74% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Harvard leads 3–⁠0 in three meetings, counting the one since this game.

Recent meetings
1944Harvard 13, Boston College 0
1919Harvard 17, Boston College 0
1918Harvard 14, Boston College 6

Around this game

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