Army at Harvard

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  The Daily Alaska empire, October 17, 1938, page 5

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  ARMY CADETS BEAT HARVARD West Pointers Score Win Which Is Seventh Con- secutive Victory CAMBRIDGE, Oct. IT. - The Army’s stout hearted Cadets ral- lied three times last Saturday after noon after being moved down by terrific aerial blasting to gain a seventh consecutive victory over the much improved Harvard team. The Army won by a score of 20 to IT. With five minutes to play, Charles Huey Long prevented a third Har- yard touchdown by intercepting q pass on the one-yard line and run ming back 20 yards.

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  The times-news. (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, North Carolina, October 17, 1938, page 4 (results column)

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  RECENT PROGRAMS ARE STUDDED WITH THRiLLERS STUDDED With lHHlLLENS Last weeks football program was studded with thrillers. Perhaps the most thrilling game OF all was SyracuSe’s’ 1877 victory over Cornell. With nine minutes left to play, Cornell led, 100. In those last nine mad minutes, SYRIA cuse passed its way to three touch downs while Cornell contributed a 92-yard runsback of kickoff for a touchdown. ....-.-.. Outrushed by Fordham’s hard hitting backs, Purdue came back in the last period to tie the Rams, GO. Army, trailing three times, finally subdued a scrappy Harvard team, 20–⁠17. Yale, beaten twice, went into the final period, trailing Navy, TO, put on whirlwind fin ish and emerged winner, OF. One of the East’s biggest upsets was Colgate’s 1910 triumph over a highly regarded Columbia team. Princeton came back strong to knock over Penn for the first time this season, 1870, Carnegie Tech beat a stubborn Holy Cross eleven-, TO, and North Carolina passed to TO intersectional victory over New York U. MinneSota’s one-point victory over Michigan made the Gophers favorites to retain their Big Ten title. Ohio State and Northwestern fought to a scoreless tie, Iowa bounced out of the cellar by licking Chicago, 27–⁠14, and Indiana and Nebraska wound up in 9 seoreless deadlock. In the Big Six Iowa State scored a brilliant 1913 win over Missouri, and Oklahoma punched out a 1910 victory over Kansas. GEORGIA BEATS MERCER; RECORD KEPT INTACT Georgia kept its record intac by outscoring Mercer, 28–⁠19,- Tu lane conquered Rice in SCORING battle; 26–⁠17, Louisiana Stat overwhelmed LQyola of the South ATS, Washington and Lee score’ “a. surprise victory over Kentucky 80, and Virginia topped VII, II s. In the Southwest Billy Patter son passed Baylor to a 14–⁠0 vic torv over Centenary. Arkansa showed surprising strength D crushing Texas, 42–⁠6. after tn Longhorns had scored first. Stanford and Oregon staged thriller in the Far West with tn Cardinals twice coming from o. hind to emerge victorious, 2I-lt Southern California downed WASH , ington State, 1916: and orego ) State won from Washington, tn coasts biggest disappointment 1876. 49,. 80. In the Rocky Mountain regio, Utah and Brigham Young het , TT, Denver beat Utah States u

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Harvard leads 19–⁠18–⁠2 in 39 meetings, counting the 15 since this game.