Rutgers at Harvard

Saturday, November 2, 1946 Share

Rutgers beat No. 17 Harvard 13–⁠0. It was their first meeting; after it, Rutgers led the series 1–⁠0.

AwayRutgers7–⁠2 in 1946

Home17Harvard7–⁠2 in 1946

FinalHigh 61°F, low 51°F, 0.05 in. of rainAttendance 12,000

In the newspapers

The Daily Alaska empire, November 4, 1946, page 3 (results column)
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FOOTBALL SCORES me louoWlng are football galle’ played over the weekend. Army 19; West Virginia [. Temple ‘; Syracuse 28. Georgit Tech IA; Duke U. Notre Dame 28; Navy O. Princeton IT; Penn l4 Rutgers 13; Harvard 0. Alabama 0; Georgia IA. Cornell l2; Columbia 0. North Carolina IA; Tenn 20. Fordham 0; Penn State 6S. Brown 19; Holy Cross 2l. Vermont 20; Mass, State 28. Northeastern 0; New Hamp. 26. Boston College 72; NYU 6. Oklahoma IA; Texas Christian l. Illinois ‘; Iowa O. Michigan 2l; Minnesota C. Colgate 39; LaFayette 0. Washington-Jeff 4S; Carne gie Tech 0. Virginia ‘; Richmond l9. Maryland T; Williams Mary Al Missouri 21; Nebrasga 20. Indiana 20; Pittsburgh 6. Wisconsin 24; Purdue 2C Kentucky 39; Mich. State l4. ss Cincinnati 0; Tulsa 20. Southern Methodist 3; Texa 19. -@ Arkansas T; Texas Aggies 0. m Texas Tech G. Rice Al. II Ohio State 39; Northwestern 27.

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)

Harvard 85% to win. Rutgers pulled the upset.

The series

Every Rutgers–Harvard game

Rutgers leads 3–⁠2 in five meetings, counting the four since this game.

Recent meetings
1974	Rutgers 24, Harvard 21
1970	Harvard 39, Rutgers 9
1963	Harvard 28, Rutgers 0
1947	Rutgers 31, Harvard 7
1946	Rutgers 13, Harvard 0

Rutgers at Harvard

In the newspapers

Before kickoff

Our ratings (scores only)

The series

Around this game

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