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Princeton at Harvard

Saturday, November 18, 1882

Harvard beat Princeton 2–⁠1. It was their seventh meeting; after it, Princeton led the series 4–⁠2–⁠1.

AwayPrinceton7–⁠2 in 1882
1
HomeHarvard7–⁠1 in 1882
2

FinalAttendance 1,000

In the newspapers

  • The New-York tribune's story: HARVARD DEFEATS PRINCETON.

    New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], November 19, 1882, page 1

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    HARVARD DEFEATS PRINCETON. BosTON, Nov. lo.-Ihe football contest at Cambridge this afternoon between Harvard and Prince ton III the college charpOn series, was won by Harvafd f. q game was IA very close and exciting one. tnr following IT. the score Harvard, goal ana one touchdown; PrInCct0As, one goal INCREDULuY AT PRINCEION. PRINCETON, y j.. NOV. ls.-At an early hour thi7 evening kilograms received giving the score Ol the Princeton game al Cambridge While the col 20 tne iact that their team had been herlou.ly weakNed by the unforeseen removal Oi harlan and Flint, still the students gene any leit GouueDt VI sncces, ana are unwilling 70 believe that Harvard won

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)

Princeton 54% to win. Harvard won as Elo’s underdog.

The series

Every Princeton–Harvard game

Princeton leads 51–⁠37–⁠7 in 95 meetings, counting the 88 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Harvard 35, Princeton 14
2024Harvard 45, Princeton 13
2023Princeton 21, Harvard 14
2022Princeton 37, Harvard 10
2021Princeton 18, Harvard 16
2019Princeton 30, Harvard 24

Around this game

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