Yale at Michigan

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  Evening star, October 29, 1939, page 30

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  Harmon Rushes for 2O3 Yards In Is Tries, Leads Michigan To Ut Victory Over Yale rest Evashevski. Again Harmon converted Michigan’s third touchdown, scored midway of the second period, was another Harmon inspired tally, Tom going over on a plunge from the 1-foot line on fourth down. Again he kicked the point. The last Michigan score, Harmons 59-yard journey down the sidelines, was an artistic piece of work in which the Michigan junior fooled no less than three would be Yale tacklers into diving into thin air before he crossed the last chalk line. Yale Tallies in Air. Unable to gain on the ground (Michigan’s line yielded a net total of only 81 yards), Yale found the air the touchdown road in the last period, marching 81 yards. with Henry Wood taking Fred Burr’s a. yard pass just over the goal line for the score. Howie (Two Kick Kaye, the Yale place-kicking specialist, came in and converted. Harmon’s 81 points today lifted his scoring total for the season to 73 points. His feat of gaining 2O3 yards from scrimmage left him with an average of better than IL yards a try for the first four games of Michigan’s schedule.

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 30, 1939, page 5

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  MICHIGAN BEATS YALE AS HARMON T0UCHDOWNS ANN ARBOR. Mich, Oct. 30. = With engineer Tom Harmon at the controls, Michigan’s football steam roller crushed Yale last Saturday afternoon, 27 to before more than 53000 football fans. Harmon, the Gary, Ind. thunder bolt, scored three of the four touch- downs.

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  The Nome nugget, Alaska, October 30, 1939, page 1 (results column)

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  Football Scores October 28 October 28 Nebraska 25-Kansas State 9 Auburn 6-Georgia Tech T Iowa l9-Wisconsin 13 Illinois 0-Northwestern 13 Alabama 7-Mississippi State Tulane 18-Mississippa 6 Clemson 15-Navy 2 Notre Dame 7-Carnegie 6 North Carolina 30-Penn 6 Cornell 20-Ohio State 14 Yale 7-Michigan 27 Dartmouth 16-HarVard o Pitt 13-Fordham 27 Lake Forest O-Duke 6 Stanford 5-Washington 8 Washington State 0 Oregon State 13 Oregon G. UCLA 16 Southern Cal 26-California 0 Purdue 6-Santa Clara 13 Montana 13-Idaho 0

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.

Tied 2–⁠2 in four meetings.