Yale at Harvard

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, November 21, 1948, page 38

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  CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Nov. 90 Harvard’s fleet backs ran Yale ragged in the last quarter today as they rallied for two touchdowns and a 20–⁠7 victory before a capacity crowd of 57.4s5. Harvard overcame 7–⁠6 Yale mar gin to win the 65th clash Of this storied rivalry. Captain Kenny O’Donnell, playing with a plastic cast protecting his fractured leg, fiashy Hal Moff1e and Chuck Roche were the big guns in the Harvard surge. Moffe started the fireworks on the first running play of the contest. He took off from his own 20 and went 80 yards in dazzling in and out run. He started to swing to his left and then cut back to scoot all the way. The kick was missed, opening the way for Yale TO take over. The rude shock kept the Ellis fairly

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 55 since this game.