Harvard at Yale

Saturday, November 22, 1930

Harvard beat Yale 13–⁠0. It was the 49th of their 120 meetings on file (of 141); after it, Yale led the series 27–⁠16–⁠6 in the games on file.

AwayHarvard4–⁠4–⁠1 in 1930
13
HomeYale5–⁠2–⁠2 in 1930
0

FinalHigh 59°F, low 51°FAttendance 78,000

In the newspapers

  • The Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current's story: YALE BEATEN BY HARVARD Wood Directs Passing Game Which Wrecks Old Eli 1910

    Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, Texas, November 23, 1930, page 1

    Read the text

    YALE BEATEN BY HARVARD Wood Directs Passing Game Which Wrecks Old Eli 1910 YALE BOWL. New Haven. Conn. 22-Ry- Harvard’s big grldiTon machine after a succession OF MI snaps along the football road MS season. clicked on all cylinders today for the first time anu flattened Yale with a sensational come back before a crowd OF $4,000 that paced the big Blue bowl to capacity With the cool. calculating sharp shooters. quarterback William Bar nv Wood. Jr. Of Milton, Mass, deal ing destruction to eliminate hopes with a spectacular passiong attack / Harvard scored two touchdow.7 and whipped Yale decisiyely 10 TO 0. Harvard’s sturdy defense led BY her redoubtable Captain and all America center. Ben Tcknor. stop ped Booth and the Blue running at tack cold. The Crimson got the Jump and dominated the game from start TO finish as the flashy wood put on Of his greatest pas sing exhibitions. aided by Art Huguley. Of swampscott. Mass. Huguley. a rangy halfback with e long reach. scored both Harvard touchdowns as he pulled down bull let passes thrown with unerrying accuracy by Wood to the fringes Of the Eli goal. Huguley took two sui cessive heaves early in the first pc -iod. the first for Is years. the sec ond for 30 yards and a touchdown. as he raced a scant seven yards across the blue goal. Again in the third quarter the alert Crimson back was put on the spot plunging across the goal line on a &C. yard toss after Harvard had recovered a Yale tumble.

  • The The Bismarck tribune. (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current's story: Favorable Factors Appear in Wheat Market, Others Show Checks

    The Bismarck tribune. (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, North Dakota, November 24, 1930, page 1

    Read the text

    Favorable Factors Appear in Wheat Market, Others Show Checks time and flattened Yale with q SEN isational comeback before > crowd OF $4,000 that packed the big Blue bowl to capacity. With the cool, calculating sharp shooter, Quarterback William Barry Wood, Jr., Of Milton, Mass, dealing destruction to Eli hopes with q spec tacular passing attack, Harvard scored two touchdowns and whipped Yale decisively. 13 to 0. It was the third successive victory for the Crimson over the Blue, the second straight year in which the forces from Cambridge stopped the Eli flash, Albie Booth, and . crown ing triumph, after previous disappointments for the gridiron pupils OF Head Coach Arnold Horween.

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: GRID SCORES ON SATURDAY

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, November 24, 1930, page 6 (results column)

    Read the text

    GRID SCORES ON SATURDAY The following are scores of i’m portant football games played last Saturday afternoon on various parts of the states: Stanford fl; California 0. Montana University 12; University of Idaho 6. Southern Methodist 33; Rice O. Washington and Je CT s on 2; West Virginia G. Swathmore 0; Dickinson 0. Vanderbilt 27; Auburn 0. DePauw T; Wabash G. Rochester 23; Hobart 0. Navy 6; Maryland 0. Harvard 13; Yale 0. Michigan l6; Chicago 0. Notre Dame IA; Northwestern 0 Ohio State 12; Illinois g. Rutgers O. New York University 8. Lafayette 16; Lehigh 6. Wisconsin 14; Minnesota 0. Indiana T; Purdue 6. Carnegie Tech 32; Temple 13. Bucknel 0; Fordham 12. Army IS; Ursinus 0. Iowa 12; Nebraska 2. Kansas 32; Missouri 0. Villanova 13; Georgetown O. New Hampshire ‘; Brown 0. Holy Cross 13; Loyola 0. Haskell Indians 27; Butler 0. South Carolina 19; North Caro lima 0. Drake 20; Iowa State 19.

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)

Yale 75% to win. Harvard pulled the upset.

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 71 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Yale 45, Harvard 28
2024Yale 34, Harvard 29
2023Yale 23, Harvard 18
2022Yale 19, Harvard 14
2021Harvard 34, Yale 31
2019Yale 50, Harvard 43

Around this game

Harvard

Yale