Brown at Harvard

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, November 16, 1941, page 44

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  Harvard Runs Brown Raced. Then Drives to 23–⁠7 Victory Bruins Avert Shutout When SwineIer Takes Kickoff 81 Yards to Score Margarita had run back the second half kickoff 80 yards from his S, Savignano rolled . punt to Harwards 2-yard line. MacKinney’s return boot Travelled to his SO and as it bobbed about, Dan Savage hooked it on the bounce. AS soon as he put his hands on the ball, Peabody snatched it from him and Harvard got rolling again. Capt. Franny Lees 33-yard return Of a Savignano punt enabled Full back Don McNicol to start bucking from Browns Is and that fullback chalked up Harvard’s second touch down by driving over from the 2. Bruins Stand Futile. Another long return by Lee late in the third enabled Harvard to open the finale on Browns 20, from where McNicol completed a 15-yard pass to Johnny Morgan, his right end. The Bruins fought desperately inside their 5-yard line. but Greely Summers. who spelled Walter Will son at left half, finally skirted right end for q yard and Harvard’s final touchdown. Late in the game, Forte caught another pass outside the ProuY, end zope

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  Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, November 16, 1941, page 1

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  Harvard Beats Brown, B tot CAMBRIDGE. Mass. Nov. Is Harvard smothered Brown this afternoon by a q to z score. Only once did the Harvard de- Tense crumpie. With two minutes to play at the end of the second period, Heiden kicked off and Swingler, a sub Brown hack. rar 81 yards behind smart interference for the only Brown score, Pattce converting. The Crimson got under way late in the second period. McNicol raced 81 yards TO the Brown 81 With MtNicol and Lee carrying, Harvard got 10 the Brown 8 but lost on downs when Wilson’s pass was intercepted. Brown punted out but MacKinney grabbed the ball and ran 40 yards for a touchdown Wander Eb plsce-kicked the extra point. A few minutes later Wander Eb booted a goal from placement from the Brown l7-yard line. In the second half. McNico slashed is yards through the Bear line for another Harvard touch down. Once more Wander Eb converted.

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.

Harvard leads 78–⁠24–⁠2 in 104 meetings, counting the 61 since this game.