Harvard at Yale

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  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, November 24, 1940, page 1

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  YALE IS CRUSHED BY HARVARD go $4,000 Yale Bowl Spectators Watch Merciless Trounc- ing Yesterday NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, Nov. % -R-A merciless Harvard eleven put the finishing touches on one of the disastrous football seasons in Yale history by crushing its old rival, % to 0, before a crowd of At, 900 in Yale Bowl today. In absorbing their seventh beat ing in eight starts this Autumn, the Ellis threatened only in the opening period and they virtually collapsed as the Big Crimson team gathered power to score one touch. down each in the second and third quarters, and two in the fourth. Yale made only two first downs in the last three periods, both in it’s own end of the field. For Harvard the victory brought a tie with Princeton for the big Three” title and a world of salts. faction. Today’s was the most one, sided walloping handed Yale by g Harvard team since the Al to rout back in 1915. 4

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 24, 1940, page 1

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  G. Beats w. go Harvard Rous YALE $50 Penn % CORNELL 1920 Win, Lose or Draw Pro and Con All AIonq the Battlefront written hastily route to New York This (accordng the official figures Redskins fastening the OF the KILL The by the supposed to be the Polo Grounds the when Snang Savages OF the Poo Redskins the New York Giants For differently Instead of the Eastern cham the National Professional Football League Ringing upon the outcome another bali Directly, that is Indirectly Snarng could lock things today AL probably would postpone Redskins But everything the Redskins this afternoon without the services OF Fighting Frank ms name according the fellow named Fchock develops chap laid with burtis of the pitching ARM or something This hardly aerial attack at all armed gent named Sammy be optimistic and paers must be and make the most OF It,

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  The Waterbury Democrat, Connecticut, November 25, 1940, page 16

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  YALE MEN TOPICK FOOTBALL LEADER New Haven, Conn, Nov. 25-CUP) The Yale Football squad elects its 1941 captain late today and the choice lay between Alaan E. Bar tholemy, Portland, Ore, and Hovey Seymour, Greenwich, two of the three lettermen who will be hold overs from this season. Bartholemy is an end and Sey- mour has played a wingback spot throughout the season. The new leader will succeed Capt. Harold B. Whiteman, Jr., Nashville, Tenn, whose team dropped its game to Harvard Saturday 28–⁠0 and closed out the most disastrous Yale season in 67 years of football history. Yale succeeded only in defeating Dartmouth, 13–⁠7. The other seven games were losses. with Penn deal- ing the most crushing defeat. 50–⁠7 at Philadelphia early in the season. Yale plays the same schedule next year except that army will alternate for navy.

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  The Daily Alaska empire, November 25, 1940, page 5 (results column)

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  [E3}!3|]|| The following are final scores Of football games played last Satur- day afternoon: Harvard 28; Yale 0. Dartmouth 20; Brown 6. Marquette 0; Detroit l9. Georgetown G. George Washing ton 0. North Carolina State 6; Duke 42. Michigan 40; Ohio State 0. West Virginia 0; Michigan State F. Auburn T; Boston College 33. Army l9; Princeton 26. West Maryland 0; Boston Uni- yerSity 37. Penn State 2; Pittsburgh 20. Colgate IT; Columbia 20 Lehigh 0; Lafayette 46. Pennsylvania P; Cornell 20. Clemson l3; Furman ‘. Indiana 3; Purdue o. Manhattan 25; Holy Cross 33. Indiana ‘; Iowa l8. Notfe Dame G; Northwestern 20. Kentucky 0; Tennessee 33. Creighton IA; Drake 0. Minnesota p; Wisconsin 13. Mississippi State 19 Mississippi 0. University Of Washington 4l; UCLA O. Washington State 14; Gonzaga :. Montana 0; Portland 0. Brigham Young 30 Colorado State 13

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.

Officially, Yale leads 72–⁠61–⁠8; as played, 62–⁠50–⁠8 in the 120 games on file; the official count covers all 141 meetings, counting the 61 since this game.