Rensselaer at Harvard

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  Evening star, October 4, 1925, page 87

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  HARVARD DEFEATS RENSSELAER,, 1876 CAMBRIDGE. Mass, October 8 R.-Harvard opened it’s foot ball season today by defeating Rensselaer, Polytechnic Institute, 18 to 6. For the nrst time other than in the annual Haryard-Yal classic. the Crimson team appeared on the field wearing numbers. Rain fell constantly throughout the game. Miller. Harvard’s fast heavyweight halfback. scored two of the Crimson q three touchdowns and Stafford was responsible for the other. All were in the first half. In the third period Rensselaer, reached the Harvard 15-yard line on a penalty for tripping, and two short forward passes enabled Capt. Escholtz to score. All attempts at goal after touch down failed because. of the slippery bali.

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.

Harvard leads 1–⁠0 in their only meeting.