Brown at Harvard

Saturday, November 18, 1950

Harvard beat Brown 14–⁠13. It was their 50th meeting; after it, Harvard led the series 40–⁠9–⁠1.

AwayBrown1–⁠8 in 1950
13
HomeHarvard1–⁠7 in 1950
14

FinalHigh 56°F, low 40°F

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story

    Evening star, November 19, 1950, page 57

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    CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Nov. 18.- Halvard’s string of nine consecutive football setbacks, including six this season, ended today when little Carroll Lowenstein tossed two touchdown passes to give the Crimson a 14–⁠13 triumph over Brown, another Ivy League door mat. before a paltry 1000 crowd at the stadium. Lowenstein first brought the Crimson from behind by completing a 65-yard scoring aerial to Winger Fred Ravreby late in the first quarter and, on the second play of the finale, completed a two-yarder to Gil O’Neil in the Brown end zone. Dixie Hyde’s second successful conversion clinched matters for Harvard after Right Guard Bill Rosenau had dashed the Bruin hopes during the third quarter by blocking Walt Pastuszak’ S placement try for a 14th Brown point. Brown had taken the opening kickoff and. after putting together five first downs in a row, scored when Gennaro Zeoli cli- NAKED an 80-yard drive by bang ing over from the one-yard line With less than two minutes left

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)

Brown 62% to win. Harvard won as Elo’s underdog.

Harvard leads 78–⁠24–⁠2 in 104 meetings, counting the 54 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Harvard 14, Brown 10
2025Harvard 41, Brown 7
2024Brown 31, Harvard 28
2023Harvard 34, Brown 31
2022Harvard 35, Brown 28
2021Harvard 49, Brown 17

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