Navy at Harvard

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  Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, October 26, 1941, page 20

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  Harvard Holds Navy To ScOreless Tie Favored Middiss Never Near Score in Seaboard Upset CAMBRIDGE. Mass, Oct. Dc Navy was edged out OF the ranks of the unbeaten and united East ern leaders today when a gallant. Harvard eleven stunned 10000 spectators by holding the heavily favored Middies- TO a scoreless deadlock. Harvard reached its peak Of the season in staging one Of the days major gridiron upsets. Although Ioutplayed in the Statistics ,Har-s ward came closer to scoring a. victory. :, Lose Ball on DoWns I; Busik fumbled when he was hit by Peabody, and Page recovered. for Harvard on the 10. whereupen the Maroons rammed the Navy line with all the power they could muster and swept toward the. TANKS to advance TO the 2. only TO lose the ball there on downs. After that thrill-packed moment Tor the Harvard fans. there seldom was another threat of a touch down. with Navy failing to get in. side the Harvard Is. Having whipped William and Mary, West Virginia. Lafayette and Cornell without giving I’D a, touchdown In the four games, the Middies were top-heavy favorite over a Harvard team which had beaten only Dartmouth after los , ing to Penn and Cornell, and tothe very last a Navy victory seemed almost inevitable. : Thrill for Navy {, Late in the last quarter, Navy. still was banging away for q VIC tory, any kind OF victory. after having been thwarted at every turn throughout the game. Leonard sank his toes into the bail In an {. attempt for q 45-yard field goal. Harvard blocked il. and the game ended with Harvard holding The ball on Nays 40-yard line. The big thrill OF the game for the supporters Of the Middies came; in the first quarter-Just as IL had shortly before for the Maroon. followers. Having stopped Har. wards biggest threat. the Navy began moving and shook B,rsIIS into the open and on the highway toward n touchdown when great desperation tackle by Lee brought him down on the Harvard 44--not ; near the goal but with little to stop him had Lee missed.

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  Imperial Valley press, California, October 26, 1941, page 1 (results column)

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  FOOTBALL RESULTS Notre Dame 40; Illinois IA. Kansas l3: Iowa State 0. Wisconsin 27; Indiana 25. Purdue 7; Iowa 6. Mich State 80; Wayne 6. Alabama 27; Georgia IA. Northeastern IA; UpSala 7. Mich State 80. Wayne 0. Pitt 7: Duke 27 Yale o. Dartmouth T. Hobart 0; Wash jeff 7. Bowdoin 6; Colby Ia. Penn So; Maryland 6. Holy Cross l3: NYU 0, Cornell 2l: Colgate 3 Michigan 0; Minnesota :. Harvard 0; Navy 0. Army l3; Columbia 0. California Freshman 26; use Freshmen. 0. Wake Forest 13; No. Caro-. 0. Fordham 28, TCU a. Penn State 40; Lehigh 6. Boston College IA; Georgetown s Syracuse 40 Rutgers 7. Bates l3; Maine g. Johns Hopkins 0; HaVerford 38.

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Tied 1–⁠1–⁠3 in five meetings.