Tufts at Army
Saturday, October 1, 1898 Share
Army beat Tufts 40–0. It was their fourth meeting; after it, Army led the series 4–0.
FinalHigh 81°F, low 55°F
In the newspapers

The Saint Paul globe, St. Paul, Minn., October 2, 1898, page 8
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FOOTBALL SCORES. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Oct Harvard defeated Williams this afternoon by only II points. AS it is the first football game of the season, the score is very unsatisfactory, and the eleven will have to improve considerably to get into varsity form. Harvard’s great weakness was in the line at the three CEN tral places and at right end. PHILAD ELPHIA, Oct. 1.-The University OF pennsylvania football eleven defeated State college this afternoon on Franklin field by the score of 40 to 0. The red and blue scored “a points by dashing play in the first half OF twenty-five minutes and then took matters easy. Aside from some exasperattng fupbles their work really brilliant PRINCETON, n. j., Oct. 1.-The Princeton Tigers played their first game of the season today against Lehigh university and won by score of q to 0. Princeton made three touch-downs, two goals and two safeties and Lehigh did not once get within forty yards Of Princeton’s goal. WEST POINT. N. Y, Oct 1.-West Point. 40; Tufts College, 0. NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, Oct. 1.-The Yale wesleyan football game at Yale field this afternoon resulted in victory for Yale by the score Of to 0. Yales single touchdown was made by Marvin in the first half. GALESBURG, ILL.,, Oct. Football: Knox college. o; Iowa State university, 0; two 20 ITHACA, N. Y, Oct. 1.-Cornell, At: Trim itys 0. At Carlisle-Carlisle Indians A, susouehanna~0. - At swarthmore- Swarthmore %, Delaware College D. At Bloomsbury College 3. Bloomsbury o.

Daily Kennebec journal, Augusta, Me., October 3, 1898, page 2 (results column)
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Foot Ball. Saturday. At lthaca-Cornell, Al: Trinity. 0. ~ Saco-Thornton, 25; Nichols, o. AZ Boston.-Harvard. IL: Williams, o. Az West Point-Cadets. 40: Tufts. 0. AZ New Haven--Yale. 5: WESLEYAN. 0. A. Observation-Disclosures q: Lehigh. 0. a. Amherst-Amherst. IS: Williston, o. AZ Sanford-Sanford. II: Rochester q AZ Providence-Brown, 10: Holy Cross. O. No AT Observation-Disclosures IA: Nash ), At Kent’s Hill-Kent’s HILL II. “a. burn, 0. 10” ~ 70 School. 0. w. Hish At Bangor-Bangor High G. Water Vile High, 5. “ water
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)
Army 82% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Tufts–Army gameArmy leads 19–0 in 19 meetings, counting the 15 since this game.
| 1919 | Army 24, Tufts 13 | |
| 1917 | Army 26, Tufts 3 | |
| 1913 | Army 2, Tufts 0 | |
| 1912 | Army 15, Tufts 6 | |
| 1910 | Army 24, Tufts 0 | |
| 1909 | Army 22, Tufts 0 |
Around this game
Tufts
- Next gameat BrownOct. 5, 1898
- SeasonTufts in 1898
- ProgramTufts history and records
Army
- Next gamevs. Wesleyan (CT)Oct. 8, 1898
- SeasonArmy in 1898
- ProgramArmy history and records
