Cornell at Harvard
Saturday, October 8, 1938 Share
Cornell beat Harvard 20–0. It was their 13th meeting; after it, Harvard led the series 11–2.
FinalHigh 59°F, low 35°FAttendance 35,000
In the newspapers

The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 10, 1938, page 5 (results column)
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FOOT BALL M {A{5SW{5TS Ne The following are scores of prln- cipal football games played last Saturday afternoon: Washington o; U.CL.A. 13. Texas A and M O. Santa Clara T. North Dakota State 0; Idaho 27. Washington State 0; Stanford S. Portland O.; Oregon State 19. College of the Pacific 0; Califor- mia 39. Centenary 6; Southwestern of Memphis o. Duquesne c; Pittsburgh 27. Tulane IT; North Carolina IA. LaFayette 0; Brown 20. Duke ?; Colgate 0. Waynesburg O; Fordham 5. Dartsmouth g; Princeton 0. New York 26; Rutgers 6. Manhattan 6; Holy Cross 19. Columbia 20; Army Is. Yale 0; Pennsylvania 21. Virginia O. Navy S. Chicago ‘; Michigan 45. Washington and Lee 6; West Vir- ginia 6, tie. Lehigh O., Case 0, tie. Carnegie Tech 32; Wittenberg 13. Vanderbilt IA; Kentucky T. Bucknell IA; Penn State O. Virginia Tech 27; William and Mary 0. Cornell 20; Harvard 0. Holy Cross 19; Manhattan 6. Drake O.; Northwestern B. Purdue 0; Minnesota ‘. Auburn 0: Tennessee T. Alabama IA; North Carolina State 0. Missouri 13 Kansas State 21. Southern California IA: Ohio State ‘. California Aggies 0; California 43. Indiana 2; Illinois 12. Wisconsin 31; Iowa 13 Baylor g; Arkansas 6. Iowa State 8; Nebraska ‘. Oklahoma 13 Texas 0. Notre Dame IA; Georgia Tech 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 50% to win. Cornell won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Cornell–Harvard gameHarvard leads 47–21–1 in 69 meetings, counting the 56 since this game.
| 2026 | Harvard 41, Cornell 29 | |
| 2025 | Harvard 34, Cornell 10 | |
| 2024 | Harvard 38, Cornell 20 | |
| 2023 | Harvard 41, Cornell 23 | |
| 2022 | Harvard 35, Cornell 28 | |
| 2021 | Harvard 24, Cornell 10 |
Around this game
Cornell
- Next gameat SyracuseOct. 15, 1938
- SeasonCornell in 1938
- ProgramCornell history and records
Harvard
- Next gamevs. ArmyOct. 15, 1938
- SeasonHarvard in 1938
- ProgramHarvard history and records

