Columbia at Harvard

Saturday, October 12, 1901

Harvard beat Columbia 18–⁠0. It was their sixth meeting; after it, Harvard led the series 6–⁠0.

AwayColumbia8–⁠5 in 1901
0
HomeHarvard12–⁠0 in 1901
18

Finallow 54°F

In the newspapers

  • The The daily morning journal and courier's story: SATURDAYS FOOTBALL GAMES. Yale Easily Defeated the Naval Cadets and Harvard Beat Columbia.

    The daily morning journal and courier, New Haven, Conn., October 14, 1901, page 6

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    SATURDAYS FOOTBALL GAMES. Yale Easily Defeated the Naval Cadets and Harvard Beat Columbia. Yale Easily Defeated the Naval Cadets and Harvard Beat Columbia. There We’re no big surprises in the football scores Saturday, as was the case the week before. Yale had no trouble in rolling up “a points against the navad cadets at Annapolis. The play was fierce in both halves, and the play Of the New Haven men was bet ter than at any time this season. Gould, Hart and Wilhelm played the best game for Yale. The Yale team returned home last night after their southern trip. Nearly all the men were feeling in fair conditon. Goss and Wilhelm We’re slightly overcome by the heat, however. There will be practice as usual at the field this afternoon at o’clock. Following was the lineup in the game Saturday: NAVY. POSITION. YALE. Reed .................. Gould (captain) Left Tackle. Rogers and Fretz. ................G oss Left Guard. carpenter OlCOIL center Fretz and oaks .................sH olt Right Guard. Belknap OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Glass Right Tackle. ADAMS OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Hogan Right End, SeWell ................... Swan, Rafferty, Quarterback. Smith Observation-Disclosures. DeSaulles Left Half Back. ................. Chadwick Right Half Back. Land and Wiann MISUNDERSTANDING Hart Fullback. Nichols (captain) 49,. Wilhelmi Umpire-Ely, Of Yale. Referee of Georgetown, Timekeepers-Townsend and Childs. Touchdowns 2, Hogan 9. Goals-Olcott A.

  • The The Washington times's story: HELD HARVARD DOWN. Columbia Keeps the Crimson's Score in Reasonable Limits.

    The Washington times, October 13, 1901, page 8

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    HELD HARVARD DOWN. Columbia Keeps the Crimson’s Score in Reasonable Limits. CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Oct columbia succeeded in holding Harvard down TO a smaller score than she piled up last year, but if Sanford had any hopes of taking Harvard’s scalp he was even more dis appointed than last year. His eleven played a plucky game up to the very last minute, but they had not been Taught how to stop Harvard’s play and were compelled to play an unsuccessful defensive game throughout. The nearest they ever got to Harvard $ goal was the middle of the field. and did not once advance the ball into Harvard territory. Columbia’s s centre held well and in general her line was not notice ably inferior TO HarVard’s, but the feature was Harvards end play. Putnam captured two touchdowns in the 1rst half and kicked both goals deliberately in the second Ristine rammed his way over from the ten-yard line and Herman KICK, ed the goal. which made Harvards 5 fnal score is to o.

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

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Our ratings (scores only)

Harvard 76% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Harvard leads 48–⁠13–⁠1 in 62 meetings, counting the 56 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Harvard 31, Columbia 14
2024Harvard 26, Columbia 6
2023Harvard 38, Columbia 24
2022Columbia 21, Harvard 20
2021Harvard 49, Columbia 21
2019Columbia 17, Harvard 10

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