Army at Harvard
Saturday, November 11, 1939 Share
Harvard beat Army 15–0. It was their 25th meeting; after it, Harvard led the series 15–9–1.
FinalHigh 55°F, low 42°FAttendance 45,000
In the newspapers
The Nome nugget, November 13, 1939, page 1 (results column)
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Football Scores November Il Washington 13-California 6 Oregon State 19-Oregon IA Santa Clara 6-Michigan State Washington State Freshmen - 6-Washington Frosh 12 Washington State 2l-Idaho l3 Southern California 33-Stan- ford 0 Fresno State 27 Portland U 13 Utah 34-Hawaii 19 Army 0-Harvard 15 Missouri 20-New York U ‘ Pitt 6-Carnegie Tech 0 Duquesne Worth Carolina State 0 Columbia 19--Navy 13 Dartmouth 7-Princeton 9 Minnesota 20-Michigan ‘ Colgate 12-Cornell IA North Carolina 3z-Davidson 0 Notre Dame 6-Iowa Kentucky 6-Georgie Tech 13 Duke 20-V MY Tulane 13-Alabama 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.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Army 52% to win. Harvard won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Army–Harvard gameHarvard leads 19–18–2 in 39 meetings, counting the 14 since this game.
| 1991 | Army 21, Harvard 20 | |
| 1989 | Army 56, Harvard 28 | |
| 1984 | Army 33, Harvard 11 | |
| 1983 | Harvard 24, Army 21 | |
| 1982 | Army 17, Harvard 13 | |
| 1981 | Army 27, Harvard 13 |
Around this game
Army
- Next gamevs. Penn StateNov. 18, 1939
- SeasonArmy in 1939
- ProgramArmy history and records
Harvard
- Next gamevs. New HampshireNov. 18, 1939
- SeasonHarvard in 1939
- ProgramHarvard history and records