Bates at Harvard

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 4, 1931, page 65

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  LIGHT BATES TEAM BOWS TO HARVARD Crimson Is Winner by % to 0, in First Tilt Under Tutelage Of Eddie Casey. CAMBRIDGE, Mass, October-3.- Harvard. afflicted with all of the usual first-game failings, today officially launched Eddie Casey’s varsity coach ing regime by topping the light but hardhitting Bates outfit, $50. The Crimson, with an offense limited to few simple power plays and one elementary forward pass, was held scoreless during the first period by the fast-charging Bates backfield which checked the Harvard attack inside of its 10-yard line five times during the contest. Twice. however. this magnificent work was wasted for Harvard scored two of its touchdowns by blocking punts that Halfback Ray McClusEey attempted from behind the Bates goal line. An other touchdown, in the fourth period resulted from a l5-yard forward pass that Harry Wells. replacement for Capt Barry Wood completed to Jack Crickard, the outstanding back of the game

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 5, 1931, page 5 (results column)

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  FOOTBALL \! ]! RESULTS The following are scores of prin- cipal football games played las Saturday: University of Washington 25 Montana 0. Idaho 0; Oregon 9. Santa Clara o; Stanford 6. St. Mary’s IA; California O. Oregon State O; Southern Cali fornia 30. Washington State 13: University of Southern California at Los An geleS 0. Notre Dame 25; Indiana o. Amherst 0; Princeton 27. Williams and Mary 6; Navy 13 College of Idaho 0; Utah 52. Montana State 6; Utah Aggies 21. Maine O. Yale l9. St. Lawrence 0; Colgate 45. Western Reserve 0; Purdue 28. Bates 0; Harvard 28. Knox 6; Army 67. Washington and Jefferson 10; Carnegie Tech T. Florida 34; North Carolina 0. Niagara 6; Cornell 37 Buffalo 0; Dartmouth 61. SWarthmore 2; Pennsylvania 32. Virginia Military I nst i t u te 0; Duke 13. Whitman 37; Albany College al Portland 0. Virginia 6; Maryland ‘. Northwestern 19; Nebraska 2.

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 three since this game.