Harvard at Yale

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, November 23, 1947, page 42

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  Yale Defeats Harvard With Long Drives in Thriller, 81 10 Il NEW HAVEN, Conn, Nov. % A slashing group of Yale backs led by Bob TEX” Furse of Eastland Tex, put on long scoring drives in every period today to overcome an everything Harvard team, 81 to 81, in one of the most thrilling offensive duels seen in the East this year. The two old settlers of the East ern slope went at it as if they were playing for a National title and more than repaid 10000 who turned out to watch them bounce each other around for the 64th time. They were tied 14–⁠14 at the half. Furse proved the individual hero of the bruising engagement. In addition to ramrodding Yale’s pass ing attack, he smashed across Harwards goal line three times to tie a record for the series set by Art Fitzgerald of Yale two years ago. Levi Jackson, elusive Negro fullback, went over for the Blues fourth touchdown and Bill Booze climaxed the Els scoring spree with 39-yard field goal in the fading moments Of the game. With Furse passing brilliantly tc a variety of receivers, and Jackson and Ferd Nadherny ripping almost at random through the Harvard line, Yale paraded, in order, r. At, 66 and 68 yards to its scores. Jackson set up Yale’s first score with a brilliant 26-yard run through the center of the Harvard line.

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.

Officially, Yale leads 72–⁠61–⁠8; as played, 62–⁠50–⁠8 in the 120 games on file; the official count covers all 141 meetings, counting the 56 since this game.