Cornell at Harvard

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  Evening star, October 9, 1949, page 47

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  Rugged Cornell Eleven Beats Harvard 33.14,. For Third in Row CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Oct. s. Cornell’s faster and better manned forces raced to their third foot ball win by trouncing Harvard. 1914, today before shirt-sleeved, opening day crowd of $4,000 at the stadium. The speedsters from Ithaca, N. Y, were knocked slightly off balance at the outset by the Grim son, aroused over two previous setbacks by Stanford and Columbia. Displaying surprising determination, Harvard took the opening kickoff and ran and passed to Cornell’s 20 before being halted by a pass interception. Then guard Bill Rosenau gave Harvard an other chance by recovering Hillary Chollet’s tumble on Cornell’s eight. Three plays later. Chuck Roche banged three-yards to give Harward the initial touchdown. But Cornell rebounded immediately and strung together five touchdowns before Harvard ended the games scoring early in the finale. Lyndon Hull, who made two trips into the Harvard end zone, climaxed the first successful Cor nell thrust, which measured 10 yards, by going 10’ yards on a quick-opener as the first period closed. Early in the second session Hull closed an 80-yard march by bang ing over from the 3-yard line. Before the half ended, Pete Dor set tossed a 13yard touchdown aerial to Chollet and Bill Kirk made his second conversion to give Cornell a 20–⁠7 lead. Defensive Quarterback Bob Haley raced 40 yards with an intercepted pass and Walt Bruska snatched Dorset’s 33-yard over head for Cornell’s third-period touchdoWns. Down, 1877, Harvard battled on in grim fashion and, taking the last Cornell kickoff. ran and passed rs yards to the Ithacans’ 4, from where Johnny White scored seven seconds later on the first fourth-period play. Cornell IA 13 0–⁠33 Harvard 7 0 o ia Cornell scoring Touchdowns-Hul 2, Chollet, Haley, Bruska. Points after touch down-Kirk 3. Harvard scoring: Touchdowns-Roche, White. Points after touchdown-Walsh (2).

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Harvard leads 47–⁠21–⁠1 in 69 meetings, counting the 53 since this game.