Dartmouth at Harvard

Saturday, October 28, 1950

Dartmouth beat Harvard 27–⁠7. It was their 54th meeting; after it, Harvard led the series 31–⁠20–⁠3.

AwayDartmouth3–⁠5–⁠1 in 1950
27
HomeHarvard1–⁠7 in 1950
7

FinalHigh 59°F, low 31°F

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Johnny Clayton Leads Dartmouth 10 Victory Over Harvard, II 10 I

    Evening star, October 29, 1950, page 47

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    Johnny Clayton Leads Dartmouth 10 Victory Over Harvard, II 10 I CAMBRIDGE. Mass. Oct. % Johnny Clayton. Dartmouth S passing ace, crossed up Harvard twice with scoring runs as the Indians gained their first 1850 triumph, 27–⁠7, today before a $4,000 crowd at the stadium. And after settling matters with 1-yard scoring sneak and a Is yard gallop into the Harvard enc zone, Clayton resumed his GUS tomary football role and launched a 28-yard touchdown heave to Dick Collins early in the finale. Unable to gain with it’s running attack, Harvard finally got Its passing attack clicking late in the game and little Carroll Lowenstein put two long heaves together Winger Paul Crowley dragging down the second on Dartmouth s Is and going the rest of the way untouched. But Dartmouth’s substitutes who were in action at that stage took the resulting Harvard kick off and drove 10 yards before BOZ McCraney, the Clayton stand-in contacted Substitute Halfback Dick Brown with five-yarG touchdown pass with only Is sec onds remaining. Dartmouth, which had only a 21–⁠21 opening game tie with Holy Cross to boast about to date, was SO hungry for its initial win that it drew total of lis yards in penalties. mostly for roughing and once for having IL men in action. | But those aggressive tactics held Harvard’s rushing yardage to deplorable minus-19 yards while leaving openings for the Crimson to make lot by air.

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.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Dartmouth 66% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Harvard leads 63–⁠40–⁠4 in 107 meetings, counting the 53 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Harvard 31, Dartmouth 10
2024Harvard 31, Dartmouth 27
2023Harvard 17, Dartmouth 9
2022Harvard 28, Dartmouth 13
2021Dartmouth 20, Harvard 17
2019Dartmouth 9, Harvard 6

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