Bates at Harvard

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 6, 1929, page 95

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  HARVARD’S LATERALS DEFEAT BATES, 48-O BY The AssOc1ated Press. CAMBRIDGE. Mass, october S. Harvard bewildered the light Bates foot ball team with we’ll executed lat eral passes here today to win its open ing game by a 48-to-0 score. Tommy Gilligan, promising Crimson halfback. gave an exhibition of brilliant broken-field running. scoring three of Harvard’s seven touchdowns. Bates displayed an exceptionally weak attack. its backs fumbling frequently. The Maine team tried many forwards, most of them being intercepted.

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 22–⁠0 in 22 meetings, counting the four since this game.