Princeton at Harvard

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 3, 1940, page 36

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  H. Wins Again. Minnesota Noses Out Northwestern Princeton Harvard Tie Win, Lose or Draw Into the Lair of the Bear Into the Lott OF the be0r Y, 2-Tomorrow day Of momentous intrepid football Redskins their anxetes with the Pittsburgh Seers invading Griffith Stadium Redskins will watch they will be the the Redskins will have beat again fly the National League pennant. snarng wondering those big Grizzly this with the about the finding be recalled defending fearful clawng 10, the Redskins believe they had Packers quite a football team. They behaved well handed Washington Lansde Knnck all of the other stars Redskins they snang trimming exhibition which played for beat the Packers by “a points and the Grizzlies against defensive team like the did week there plenty Of for whip the Packers twice running might be good handy push overs, either.

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  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, November 3, 1940, page 1

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  Harvard 0; Princeton 0 CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Nov. up Aided by the heavy rain, Harvard’s underdog football forces held a IA vored Princeton team to a s%coreless tie today before a drenched crowd of 1000, one of the smallest to witness a Big Three” gridiron battle in Har. ward stadium. AS the ancient rivals battled in the mud that ruined most of sharpshooter Dave Allerdice’s passes and put leg irons on such consistent ground gamers as Boz Peters and Bob Jackson, the Tigers failed on the games only scoring chance.

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  The Daily Alaska empire, November 4, 1940, page 5

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  HARVARD AND PRINCETON IN S(0RELE55 TIE CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 4.-Haryard battered down most of sharpshooter Dave Allerdices passes on a muddy gridiron last Saturday afternoon and held the favored Princeton Tigers to a scoreless tie. The game was witnessed by l5,000 spectators.

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.

Princeton leads 51–⁠37–⁠7 in 95 meetings, counting the 59 since this game.