Tufts at Harvard

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 7, 1945, page 24

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  Tufts Beats Harvard, 7–⁠6, When Lafter’s Kick Fails CAMBRIDGE, MASS, Oct. g. After scoring with their first nine plays, Tufts waged a grim battle with a steadily improving informal Harvard football team to gain 7–⁠6 victory today at the stadium. Billy Irwin tossed a l7-yard touchdown pass to Bill Rohrs. his left end, and then kicked Tufts seventh point. The Harvard touchdown, also made through the air, came late in the second period when Charlie Roche contacted Herb Fritts with a 22-yard aerial and the latter scam pered 20 yards into the Tufts end zone. Lee Flynn’s drop-kick try for the Crimson’s extra point was blocked. sn7v hsh+ H&

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 15–⁠3 in 18 meetings, counting the four since this game.