Pennsylvania at Harvard

Saturday, November 10, 1928

Pennsylvania beat Harvard 7–⁠0. It was their 22nd meeting; after it, Harvard led the series 13–⁠9.

AwayPennsylvania8–⁠1 in 1928
7
HomeHarvard5–⁠2–⁠1 in 1928
0

FinalHigh 47°F, low 26°F

In the newspapers

  • The Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current's story: Pennsylvania Beats Harvard Easily By 20

    Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, Texas, November 11, 1928, page 1

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    Pennsylvania Beats Harvard Easily By 20 CAMBRIDGE. Mass, Nov. l0.-H1 Threading the turf Of The Harvard Stadium again after an absence Of twenty-three years. q 1.-the. powerful Pennsylvania eleven toyed with the awkward might Of Harvard today and ended the brief resumption Of one Of footballs most ancient rival ries with the second victory In two years. The margin Of triumph. 7 20 O, was by no ear ms impressive as this Pennsylvania team. the first to dare the crimsos might on her own battlefield since the raging conflict in 1905 when Harv-rd, bruised and beaten. called u halt on a pigskin feud that dated Rack 70 1881. Victory was doubly sweet for Pennsylvania for last year, on the resumption Of relations after : ward break. the Quakers swamqeI the crimson “a to 0 in 7hiladelphia. Pennsylvania scoring: Touchdown, Scull. Point after touchdown, Scull.

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 52% to win. Pennsylvania won as Elo’s underdog.

Harvard leads 47–⁠25–⁠2 in 74 meetings, counting the 52 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Harvard 45, Pennsylvania 43
2024Harvard 31, Pennsylvania 28
2023Harvard 25, Pennsylvania 23
2022Harvard 37, Pennsylvania 14
2021Harvard 23, Pennsylvania 7
2019Pennsylvania 24, Harvard 20

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