Brown at Army

Saturday, October 7, 1944

Army beat Brown 59–⁠7. It was their seventh meeting; after it, Army led the series 5–⁠2.

AwayBrown3–⁠4–⁠1 in 1944
7
HomeArmy9–⁠0 in 1944
59

FinalHigh 82°F, low 61°FAttendance 3,500

In the newspapers

  • The Detroit evening times's story: Army Crushes Brown, 50 10 7

    Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, October 8, 1944, page 13

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    Army Crushes Brown, 50 10 7 WEST POINT Or’ rUPl Army Cadets. powered h> backs VINO moved with the versatility Of locps and the irre>tbIhty ot tanks rolled 10 59–⁠7 victory over Brown TODAY their second I’M preSsNe triumph IN as many week, Coach Earl Baik Of Army whose T formation sWamped North Carolina on the Cadet opener last Saturday used sub St’uteS freely today and most OF ms entire squad saw action Again u was Glenn DAVIS Dale Hall Doug kenna Tommy LON hardo and F’elJN Blanchard who spanked the Army drive DAVIS did some Of The pretucsi broken field running seen here IN A decade. ono Of Ia, touchdown runs being s. Yards konna however had The longest run Of the day II beng a 65-yard dash

  • The The Waterbury Democrat's story: Harvard, Yale Good On Grid

    The Waterbury Democrat, October 9, 1944, page 14 (results column)

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    Harvard, Yale Good On Grid Boston, Oct. Q -- (uPO – Har- yard today had accomplished the phenomenal by completing On m- beaten season on the gridiron to win fair share of the New England spotlight during Q weekend of war time football, Playing before some 4S,000 swell terlng fans Saturday, Harvard by a score of iS-0 turned back Q Boston College team that was making It’s debut. It ended Harvard’s official four-game schedule and gave the Crimson the first clean record in the memory of modern football fans. To complete Q feat remarkable in Harvard football annals, the war time eleven stopped Tufts, Bates and Worcester Polytechnic 1nstit- Aute in that order, Reports were hat Harvard and Tufts might meet ,Again later this season but to date She Crimson officially recognized Nnly e four-game schedule. Cornell Upset Next best performance was at Few Haven, Conn, where Harvard S flcient rival Yale, playing big Sme schedule despite the war, turn | back Cornell l6–⁠7, Dartmouth took a 20–⁠6 hammer apg in Philadelphia at the hands of ‘ennsylvania-the same city where n Friday night Holy Cross smacked Temple S0–⁠0, Tn other games, Coast suard Academy stopped Worcester Tech 39–⁠0; University of Connecti- Nt beat Middlebury l3–⁠7; Tufts Nried Bates 46–⁠0 and Brown took 59–⁠7 mauling at the hands of rmy on the West Point field.

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 75% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Army leads 6–⁠2 in eight meetings, counting the one since this game.

Recent meetings
1981Army 23, Brown 17
1944Army 59, Brown 7
1943Army 59, Brown 0
1940Brown 13, Army 9
1897Army 42, Brown 0
1896Army 8, Brown 6

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