Navy at Harvard
Saturday, October 16, 1937 Share
Navy and Harvard tied 0–0. It was their fourth meeting; after it, the series stood even at 1–1–2.
FinalHigh 49°F, low 34°FAttendance 54,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 20, 1937, page 1
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‘BAMA POWER SEEN IN DEFEAT OF VOLS. Bear. Trojan Battle Looks Peak Coast Test-Harvard, Navy Tackles Great. n yEw YORK. October 2o.-Last M Winter in California Frank “ Thomas of Alabama admitted a his team was not looking at that time in the general direction of any big bowl game. 1T may be differ ent this next Fall’‘-meaning the present era-Thomas said: II think we’ll be about ready then to get the cid Crimson Tide rolling once more” Thomas apparently knew something, Any team that can move into Knox vile and win from Bob Neyland’s Ten f1essee outfit has to have its share of stuff Alabama has been poison to West Coast foot ball for many years. Its last invasion featured the great passing attack of Howell to Hutson against an all-star Stanford team with such stars as Grayson. Hamilton, Topping. Moscrip, Galloway, Reynolds and still others who happened to be among the country’s best. Alabamas three leading opponents from now on include Tulane. Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt-all capable of dishing out trouble. But with Ten nessee out Of the road, Alabama is at least we’ll on her way.
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)
Navy 59% to win.
The series
Every Navy–Harvard gameTied 1–1–3 in five meetings, counting the one since this game.
| 1941 | Navy 0, Harvard 0 | |
| 1937 | Navy 0, Harvard 0 | |
| 1936 | Navy 20, Harvard 13 | |
| 1908 | Harvard 6, Navy 6 | |
| 1907 | Harvard 6, Navy 0 |
Around this game
Navy
- Next gameat Notre DameOct. 23, 1937
- SeasonNavy in 1937
- ProgramNavy history and records
Harvard
- Next gamevs. DartmouthOct. 23, 1937
- SeasonHarvard in 1937
- ProgramHarvard history and records

