Harvard at Virginia

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  Evening star, October 13, 1947, page 18

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  Injury Ends Career Of Harvard Captain BOSTON, Oct. 13.-Vincent Mora vec, Harvard football captain, never will play the game again, high authority at the university said today Hes through” was the response to question as to the 24-year-old fullback’s future as an athlete. The source asked that his name be not used. Moravec was injured in Saturdays clash with Virginia at Charlottsvile, Va. when the Southerners moved down the Crimson 47–⁠0 The ligaments of his knee were torn badly when he was tackled from behind in the first period, but his knee cap was not broken. HE should be able to attend classes in two or three weeks but il will be six months before we can say just how long the injury will affect him, and how much” the spokesman added. Today Moravec was at Harvard’s Stalman irf1rmary, to which he was removed after the accident. His wife Janice is studying for q masters degree at Simmons College

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  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, October 13, 1947, page 1 (results column)

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  Football Fanatics Catching Breath After 10 Thrilling Upsets Saturday pied Washington State 21–⁠7. The only upset in the Big Nine conference took place in Iowa City where Iowa, displaying a one two punch in little AL DiMarco and Emlen Tunnel toppled In diana 27–⁠14. Tunnel, the Negro halfback, caught three touch down passes. In other outstanding games of the day, Southern California dis played power on the ground and in the air in banking Ohio State 800; Minnesota outslugged Northwestern 1921; Virginia handed Harvard it’s worst defeat in years, 47–⁠0; Rutgers won its third game in 70 years from Princeton 1877; Cornell took a big step toward the central New York Big Three title with a 27- 10 win over Colgate; Penn State swamped Frdham $50; Rice laced Tulane $50; Washington took the measure of St. Mary’s 1855; UCLA. bounded back by defeating Oregon 24–⁠7; Nebraska beat Iowa State AT; Louisiana State topped Texas A. & M. 49, 10; Villanova beat Holy Cross 1876; and Southern Methodist University outscored Oklahoma A. & M. 21–⁠14.

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 8–⁠1 in nine meetings.