Amherst at Brown

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 8, 1939, page 24

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  Brown and Amherst Thrill as Former Wins, 70 10 IA PROVIDENCE, r. l., Oct. = Browns football team struck in the early part of the first and third periods today to down a stubborn Amherst eleven, 20–⁠14, before 5000 excited onlookers. The Lord Jeffs, Browns oldest gridiron rivals, returned to the Bruin schedule after lapse of 10 years and threw Q scare into the Bears camp with q second-period offensive that gave them a half-time lead of 7–⁠6. Sparkling the Bruin attack was Ernie Savignano, sophomore quarterback, who reeled OF important long gains in all three Brown touch down drives.

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.

Brown leads 6–⁠4–⁠1 in 11 meetings, counting the one since this game.