Brown at Harvard

Saturday, October 1, 1938

Brown beat Harvard 20–⁠13. It was their 41st meeting; after it, Harvard led the series 32–⁠8–⁠1.

AwayBrown5–⁠3 in 1938
20
HomeHarvard4–⁠4 in 1938
13

FinalHigh 61°F, low 49°F

In the newspapers

  • The The Washington times's story: HEADLINE TILTS STUD GRID SLATE. THIS WEEKEND

    The Washington times, October 3, 1938, page 21 (results column)

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    HEADLINE TILTS STUD GRID SLATE. THIS WEEKEND college football throughout the Nation continues its menu of ira ditional and intersectional battles with the ndea of toppling the country’s best from the ranks of the undefeated. Conference games break out in full blast the coming week, but must share interest with the likes Of the Southern California Ohio State battle at Columbus; the Georgia Tech-Notre Dame affair at Atlanti; and the Colgate-Duke f1aSco at Buffalo, N. Y. Friday night, too lists two stellar inter. sectional attractions with Texas Christian at Temple and Southern Methodist playing Marquette at Chicago. No less than three local elevenS indulge in interSectional battles with Cathoic U. playing Detroit at Detroit and George Washington host here to Butler University Of Indianapolis on Fri. day evening. On Saturday, Mary. land travels to Syracuse for a game in Archibald Stadium. Headlining the East’S football parade Saturday is the Princeton. Dartmouth, the Penn-Yale and the Harvard Cornell Ivy League encounters. Pitt tackles DuqueSne in the Pitt Stadium, with the dis appointed baseball fandom of the Smoky City, expected to turn out $4,000 strong for this home grown attraction. Navy entertains sur prising Virginia, and the Army clashes with strong Columbia in other featured games of the East. SPECTACULAR GAMES Down south and into the South west a number of spectacular games have been carded. Wander bilt meets Kentucky at Lexington; !; Tennessee plays Auburn at Knox. vile; North Carolina entertains Tulane’s Green wave and v. P. I. plays William and Mary in the Old Dominion State headliner. Texas battles Oklahoma and L. S. U. plays Rice in important as SignmentS. Big Ten and Blk Six tilts feature the play in the Midwest. Illinois Indiana, Iowa-WisconSin, Michigam Chicago, and Minnesota–Pur due is the western Conference slate for Saturday. Kansas State Missouri, and Nebra a-Iowa State features Blk Six competiton. California plays two “breather’‘ opponents next Saturday, enter taining College of the Pacific and California Aggies. In Pacific Coast Conference play, Stanford opposes Washington State and u C. L. A. meets a dissappoint. ing Washington eleven. The Su’ gar Bowl champion, Santa Clara eleven, takes on Texas A. and M At the close of the second ween end of warfare along the college grid front, Minnesota, Pittsburgh Santa Clara, Columbia, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Tennessee Southern Methodist, Texas Chris tian, and Brown assumed the lead in the quest for the national mythical championship. IMPRESSIVE VICTORIES All these teams won impressive victories over stern opposition, with Brown turning in the out. standing surprise of the day, trim. ming Harvard, 20–⁠13. Minnesota gained revenge OF its 1887 defeat by Nebraska pounding out a 1877 victory. Ohio State did likewise by defeating Indiana with pass for tally in the fourth period, 60. Santa Clara sounded to the ma. ton that she was ready TO rthe best of ‘em by Soundly thrashing Stanford, 90, and Pittsburgh, with its dream backfield,” ,” smothered Temple, 27–⁠6 before the largest crowd ever assembled in the Owls lair. Columbia again captured the hearts of the Gotham Scribes by whipping a young but energetic Yale machine, 27–⁠14, and Notre Dame, using “a players, ran over Kansas, conqueror Of Texas, SO. Tennessee turned back the as pirationS of a powerful Clemson team, 20–⁠7 with a last quarter touchdown surge, and Southern Methodist trimmed Arizona in an interSectional fray, 27–⁠7 that was impressive. Texas Christian, in quest of the Southwest title top pied Arkansas, ALA. CRISLER’S DEBUT In big state encounters, Michigan, starting out under Fritz Crisler, upset Michigan State, 40, while wisconsin schellaced Marquette 27–⁠0 in easy fashion. Old Penn inaugurated the Numger regime. by stopping Lafayette, undefeated last year, 346. and Navy won its second in a row, bowling over v. M. l., 26-O. Army swamped v. P. l., 80, and Vir. ginia defeated washington and Lee for the first time in seven years, 13–⁠0. Auburn and Tulane battled to a scorelesS tie for the third time in as many years. Locally, Georgetown swamped a highly-regarded Hampden-Syoney eleven, So, but Maryland, with its passing star. Charley Weidenger out of the lineup, was druhksd by Penn State, $50. George Washington made its first | start of the wear noSing ollt FIJI.

  • The The times-news. (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current's story: Football Results

    The times-news. (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, North Carolina, October 3, 1938, page 4 (results column)

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    Football Results Following are results of all lead ing college football games played Saturday: SOUTH Auburn O; Tulane 0 (tie) Duke 27; Davidson o. Virginia 13; Washington and Lee o. Centre l6; Chattanooga 7. Kentucky &c; Oglethorpe O. Alabama 81; Howard 0. Mississippi State %; Florida 0. Georgia Z: South Carolina 6. Georgia Tech 10; Mercer 0. Tennessee 20: Clemson 7. Vanderbilt ~; Western Ken lucky Teachers 0. North Carolina 81; NJ C. State Richmond ~; Randolph-Macon Apprentice School 9; William & Mary 8. Guilford 6: Wofford O. Carson Newman Is; Union, Ky. College 6. Belmont Abbey 10; Eastern Carolina Teachers 0. Holing Springs 10; Lees-McRae Emory & Henry O.; Western Carolina Teachers 0 (tie). Mississippi 27; La. Tech 7. EAST Amherst 6; Springfield 6 (tie). Army 90; Virginia Tech 0. New Hampshire %; Bates 6. Bucknell 27; Gettysburg ID. Carnegie Tech 40; Davis Elkins Cornell Is; Colgate 6. Delaware II; Ursinus 9. Fordham AT; Upsala o. Georgetown 81; Hampden-Sydney 0. Brown 20; Harvard 13. Holy Cross 46; Rhode Island 0. New York 10; Maine 0. Penn State 80; Maryland 0. Pennsylvania 81: Lafayette 6. Princeton SO; Williams 0. Rutgers Is; Vermont ID. Pittsburgh %; Temple 6. Trinity 10; Union IS. Navy &c; Va. Military 0. Villanova SO; American Inter national O. Columbia 27; Yale ID. Dartmouth 81; st. Lawrence 0. Boston s. Lehigh s (tie). Washington & Jefferson 81; Ma rietta O.. West Virginia 49, West Vir-

  • The Evening star's story: Cubs Win Pennant: Two Grid Upsets

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 2, 1938, page 1 (results column)

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    Cubs Win Pennant: Two Grid Upsets Winding up with a 17-hit bar rage in the second game Of a double-header with the st. Louis Cardinals, the amazing Chicago Cubs temporarily showed football into the background yesterday as they clinched the National League pennant by splitting even as the Pittsburgh Pirates dropped a 9-to-6 decision to the Cincinnati Reds and eliminated themselves from one Of the hottest flag chases in years. Only two gridiron upsets were recorded as the football campaign swung into its warmest week end. Oklahoma of the Big Six Confer ence surprised the highly touted Rice eleven, 7 to 6. and a light but experienced Brown eleven smashed Harvard, 20 to 13. Minnesota’s burly Gophers and Pittsburgh’s vaunted Panthers strengthened their claims to ma tional recognition by handy VIC tories, Minnesota beating Nebraska, 16 to 7. and Pitt whipping Temple, % to 6. Georgetown was the only local college team to win, routing Hampden-Sydney, 81 to 0. Maryland was soundly beaten by Penn State, 33 to 0. (Full details in sports section.)

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: FOOT BAIL @ {3{5SW{5 IFS Ne

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 3, 1938, page 5 (results column)

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    FOOT BAIL @ {3{5SW{5 IFS Ne The following are results of prin- cipal football games played last Sat- urday Columbia 27; Yale IA. Indiana 0; Ohio State 6. Nebraska T: Minnesota Is. Brown 20 Harvard 13. Michigan State O; Michigan IA. Army 39; Virginia Tech 0. --~‘‘N+‘e c. pnnnsylvania 34 Boston 6; Lehigh 6. dc ‘: M,ssouri 14. Purdue 21; Butler 6. kansas 0; Notre Dame 52. Kansas State 0, Northwestern 21. University of Washington 12; Idaho 12. U.CL,A 12: Oregon IA California 27; Washington State 3. Pittsburgh 23; Temple 6.

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)

Harvard 75% to win. Brown pulled the upset.

Harvard leads 78–⁠24–⁠2 in 104 meetings, counting the 63 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Harvard 14, Brown 10
2025Harvard 41, Brown 7
2024Brown 31, Harvard 28
2023Harvard 34, Brown 31
2022Harvard 35, Brown 28
2021Harvard 49, Brown 17

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