Harvard at Yale

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  Evening star, November 20, 1949, page 42

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  jackson Leads Yale To Crushing Victory Over Harvard, H-6 NEW HAVEN, Conn, Nov. 10 Desperate Yale pulverized bat tered Harvard, 20 to 6, today to win the consolation prize among the “Big Three footballers and salvage the big game in a medlocre campaign. A slashing first half scoring spree brought the priced triumph to the Blue. Yale won the climactic contest for Levi Jackson, its colored cap tain, and 300-pound Coach Her. man Hickman and, when the exciting battle ended, both were carried away on the shoulders OF the Blue squad. The seasons biggest Yale bowl crowd of 1000 thrilled in the nippy air as the Bulldogs rolled up % points in the first half to wrap up the ball game. The hero of the scoring was jackson, who closed his brilliant collegiate foot ball career. Jackson tailed twice and proved an inspiring leader to his team mates as they ripped and stopped every Crimson assault but one which came in the final quarter. .r- yIxT n -. % AA

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 54 since this game.