Yale at Harvard

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  New Britain herald, Connecticut, November 21, 1927, page 9

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  REAL SCRAPS ON FINAL PROGRAM Annual Army–Nayy Classic h. cluded in List of Closing Games New York, Nov. q Pl-Two in- tersectional struggles and ten re- newals of old rivalries. including the annual Army–Navy classic. appear in the finale Of the 1927 eastern grid iron show Yale, tho leading football force in this section strutted off the stage Saturday along with their ancient enemies of Harvard whom they van quished 14–⁠0. One Of the greatest Of Army elev- ems. defeated only by Eli Yale, will meet tn” Mddies at the Polo Grounds on Saturday. While the Cadets lost prestige by the reversal from the Bulldog this was partially dispelled by their de. cisive triumph over Notre Dame. New York miversity’s eleven is on route 10 Lincoln for their second annual encounter with the Nebras- kans which takes place on Thanks giving day while Carnegie Tech journeys to Portland, Ore, to en- gage with the Oregon Aggies on Sat urday. Among the old feuds which will , break forth afresh on Thursday are those between Cornell and Pennsyl- vania at Philadelphia. Brown and Colgate al Providence. Pittsburgh and Penn State at Pittsburgh, Wash ington and Jefferson and West Nir- sina at MOrgantown. Maryland and ,Johns Hopkins at Baltimore. Colum- bia and Syracuse at New York. Catholic university and George Washington at Washington and Bucknell and Dickinson at Lewis burg On Saturday Holy Cross and Bos- tussle at the Hub. Pittsburgh and Washington and Jefferson in their respective con- tests will be striving to keep clean slate. They had one tie game, q scorless deadlock against each other. Five regulars and nine other mem- bers of the varsity squad at Yale will be lost 10 the team next year through graduation. The regulars include Capt. Bill Webster. Sid Quarter, Stew Scott Dwight Fish wick: Duncan Cox and Bill Ham mersley. The Eli varsity Of 1928 probably will be developed about Charles worth. center: Green. guard: Max Eddy, tackle; Johnny Garvey and Eddie Decker halfbacks. and John ny Hoben. quarter. Hoben, who wrenched his arm in the Princeton game. was unable to uncork his for ward passing drives against Har- yard. Six Of the Harvard eleven. who started against Yale Saturday. will be available to Coach Horween for his 1928 varsity. Simonds. Bell. Pratt. Strong and Brown will be lost through graduation but the veterans to remain are Douglas, Clark. Park inson. French. GuarnacCia and Pot ter. Tn addition. Horween will have d strong band of substitutes includ- ing Pryor and s. Burns, end men, Stewart and Turner. guards. and Mason. Crosby and Harper for the backticld. While Yale Is established as lead ing contender for eastern champion ship honors. victories for Pittsburgh or Washington and Jefferson on Thursday will leave the title in dis puto.

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, November 20, 1927, page 81

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  Yale e Victor ~ Harvard Lown the Army Both By IA to OSc0 TRIUMPH ONLY AFTER HOT BATTLE observed To VIM Says President AS He Hands Cup To Leader OF Vctors-l5, 900 See Lcvey And Duncan Score Against Game Soldiers. heaved a sigh Of rc’i”f at seeing him depart. John War@o. at guard. and Fill Sweeney and lmDS t’mberger of the haCkfeld. also starred for Army. but not SO briili1Ht.J as the giant lineman. Arny’s Best Punch at Start. Amy made it’s deepest invasion of Marine territory in the first quarter. Twice it advanced TO its opponents 20-yard stripe. once with ~ yard at tack in Which aerial and ground tactics were mixed after a Marine pass bad been intercepted and again with p 6l-y2rd advance marked by Reed nr’s fin” heaves to Butler and Sweeney end d 5-yard penalty against the Ma vines. Each time the Ieathernecks held. However. then Countered with marches in which Levey and Brunelle did much Of the pigskin carrying. But wAeu the Marines went into The air they were stopped and the end of the quarter found Army i’m possess sion OF the ball on rs 40-yard line. The Marines regaiued the ball soon after the second period started and launched a determined advance from their 25-yard stripe. Three first downs were registered quickly, Levev . yard G3shcs. When tackled at the end of his o5-yard effort. though, Levey was hurt severely enough to force his retirement and. try as they might, the Marines could get no farther than the Army 6-yard line in this march. After Army punted the Marines again headed toward goal. only to nave one of their passes intercepted. Army. however. went into the air when well within it’s own territory ana had pass intercepted by Shapley. The Marine quarterback was doWned as soon as he caught the ball. hut in the next play Duncan fianked the lett side of the Soldiers line and sped 81 yards to n touchdown. During the remainder of the second quarter and throughout the third nunting exchanges were frequent with play being mostly between the 5o-yard lines, hut the early part of the hnal quarter saw the Marines attack ing from their 23-yard line, 25-yard penalty for unnecessary roughness having set them back that far, The ensuing exchange of Kicks moved the Marine offensive to mid field then came the pass that brought the second touchdown of the game. From we’ll behind his line, Shapley hurried the ball to Levey, who was clear of most all opposition at a point Is yards ahead of the scrimmage, and the latter without much interference by Army players sprinted the remain ing 80 yards to goal. Thls Marine score seemed to spur the Army to greater efforts. for It’s passing and rushing improved, but as ~, close to goal again, as Hart had inter cepted pass from one of the soldiers and reached the Army 15-yard line be. fore being downed.

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  Seward daily gateway, Alaska, November 21, 1927, page 1 (results column)

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  FOOTBALL SCORES Stanford, B; California, 6. Southern California. P: Washington State, 0. Idaho. 12; Oregon State, 7. Yale, 14; Harvard, 0. Illinois. 13; Ohio State, 0. Army, 13; Ursinus, 0. Notre Dame, 32; Drake, 0. Minnesota, 13;i Michigan, 2. Lafayette, 4a; Lehigh, 0. Purdue, 21; Indiana, 6. Northwestern, 12; Iowa, 0. Chicago, 12; Wisconsin, 0. Navy, B; Loyola, 6, Colorado Aggies, 39; Colorado Uni versity, 2. Montana, $; Montana State, Q. Pittsburg,- IS; Hays, ‘.

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.

Officially, Yale leads 72–⁠61–⁠8; as played, 62–⁠50–⁠8 in the 120 games on file; the official count covers all 141 meetings, counting the 74 since this game.