Rutgers at Harvard

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, November 2, 1947, page 44

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  Rutgers Wins, 81 10 I, Over Weak Harvard CAMBRIDGE. Mass, Nov. l. With such finely adjusted offensive gears as Flingin’ frankie Burns and Hurryin’ Herman Herring meshlng perfectly, Rutgers well-oiled foot bali machine ground out 31–⁠7 vic tory over crippled Harvard today before a skinny crowd OF $4,000 al the stadium. With Burns hitting five OF his 10 passing targets with deadly accuracy and Herring running wild in addition to making vital catches, Rutgers scored In each of the first two peri ods. before yielding the Crimson its touchdown. Then it cllnched the issue with an 18-point explosion in this third quarter. Despite Hering’s running and receiving successes, he had a woetu afternoon trying for extra points Only one of his five placement trie: split the uprights. The harassed Crimson, minus slH OF its first-stringers and forced tt play Johnny Fiorentino, left end, al center, was far from being as out. played as the score indicated. With what was mostly third-strins backfeld in action, it scored late II the second period when Hal Moff1e who accounted for most of Harvard’s 128-yard rushing total, made Rutgers 10 from midfield. Then George Goodrich took off and was knocked out Of bounds on Rutgers 2, from where Sam Adams bucked over fol the Harvard touchdown.

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