Holy Cross at Harvard

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 17, 1929, page 1

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  HARVARD DEFEATS HOLY CROSS, 126 Crimson Forced to Use Most of Strength to Beat Crusader Team. BY the Associated Press. - AMBRIDGE, Mass, November 16.-Harvard was forced to use almost all of it’s foot ball ~ strength to subdue the light and scrsppy Holy Cross eleven by 12-to-6 score here today when the Crimson and Purple played their zenith consecutive game before $4,000 spec tatorS. Arnold Horween, Harvard coach. with next weeks Yale game in mind, started his second team against the Crusaders, who always can be relied on to get OF to q slow start in the stadium. Cleo ODonnell’s players ran true to form, but Harvards seconds were equally ragged and the first half was reduced to a mediocre punting duel. All of the Harvard regulars, except Fullback Wally Harper, entered the game late in the first half but die not get under way until the third period. Harvard had the ball on Holy Cross 10-yard line and forced the Purple into close formation. There was no one to stop Mays when he caught Devens lateral pass and widely circled his left end for a touchdown. Harvard scored again in the fourth period after White intercepted one of O’Connell’s long passes and ran 80 yards to Holy Cross 1-yard line. Wood then missed for an extra point. When all but five minutes had expired Horween withdrew his regulars, who suffered no ill effects in the stub born contest. and replaced them with most of the starting subs. Batchelder kicked of to O’Connell on the Holy Cross 15-yard line and that speedy Purple ball carrier raced 80 yards to Harvard’s 3-yard line before he was downed by Wetmore Baker then smashed through center for two yards and Clancy found the same spot open and went over for a touchdown. Baker missed the try for the seventh point.

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  Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, Texas, November 17, 1929, page 1

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  Holy Cross Presses Harvard In 1876 Win CAMBRIDGE. Mass, Nov. 16- Rl-Harvard was forced I’d usc al most ali OF its football strength TO subdue the light and snappy Holy Cross eleven BY “a ~ 70 8 score here today when the Crimson and purple played their tenth consecutive game before 81. 1000 spectators. Arnold HOrween, Harvard coach, with next weeks game IN mind. started his second team against the crusaders. The first half was reduced TO n mediocre punting duel.

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, November 18, 1929, page 5 (results column)

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  GRID SCORES ON SATURDAY The following are final scores of important football games played last Saturday afternoon: Santa Clara IS; Stanford ‘. Oregon 16; Oregon State 0. California ‘; Washington 0. Notre Dame IS; Southern Cali fornia 12. Washington State 13; Montana O. Gonzaga 20; Idaho IA. St. Mary 24; University of Cali fornia at Los Angeles 0. Tennessee 13; Vanderbilt 0. Indiana 19; Northwestern fl. Drake 2; Iowa State O. Alabama IA; Georgia Tech 0. Harvard 12; Holy Cross 6. Colgate 21; Syracuse 0. Michigan T; Minnesota 6. Illinois 20; Chicago G. Purdue T; Iowa 0. Utah A; Wyoming 0. Nebraska IS; Oklahoma 13. Yale 13; Princeton 0, Army 89; Dickinson ‘. Pittsburgh 34 Carnegie 13. New York University IA; Missouri 0. Dartmouth IS; Cornell A. Georgetown O; West Virginia 0. Pennsylvania 20 Columbia 0.

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 40–⁠16–⁠1 in 57 meetings, counting the 43 since this game.