Army at Harvard
Saturday, October 18, 1930 Share
Army beat Harvard 6–0. It was their 16th meeting; after it, Harvard led the series 13–2–1.
FinalHigh 54°F, low 48°FAttendance 60,000
In the newspapers
The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 20, 1930, page 5
Read the text
PUNT MEANS VICTORY FOR ARMY ELEVEN Only Score in Game Against Harvard Made In First Period l CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Oct. 20- Barry Woods poorest punt gave the Army a victory last Saturday over Harvard, the second victory in a series of 16 football games. The score came in the first period when Woods on Harvard’s 20-yard line, was so rushed by the Armys linemen that he was able to kick the ball only 12 yards to the 32-yard line, and the Army dashed over for a touchdown on the third down. The score was Army 6, Harvard 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.
On the newsreel
- HERB SCORES LONE ARMY TOUCHDOWN TO BEAT HARVARD, 6-0Boston-born, Manila-bred cadet cakewalks across Crimson goal line on clever fake play, while the entire University team pursues decoy.
Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Harvard 56% to win. Army won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Army–Harvard gameHarvard leads 19–18–2 in 39 meetings, counting the 23 since this game.
| 1991 | Army 21, Harvard 20 | |
| 1989 | Army 56, Harvard 28 | |
| 1984 | Army 33, Harvard 11 | |
| 1983 | Harvard 24, Army 21 | |
| 1982 | Army 17, Harvard 13 | |
| 1981 | Army 27, Harvard 13 |
Around this game
Army
- Next gameat YaleOct. 25, 1930
- SeasonArmy in 1930
- ProgramArmy history and records
Harvard
- Next gamevs. DartmouthOct. 25, 1930
- SeasonHarvard in 1930
- ProgramHarvard history and records