Yale at Harvard

Saturday, November 25, 1950

Yale beat Harvard 14–⁠6. It was the 67th of their 120 meetings on file (of 141); after it, Yale led the series 39–⁠22–⁠6 in the games on file.

AwayYale6–⁠3 in 1950
14
HomeHarvard1–⁠7 in 1950
6

FinalHigh 50°F, low 46°FAttendance 40,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Four Scoring Chances |Fumb|ed Before Ellis Whip Crimson, 14-6

    Evening star, November 26, 1950, page 44

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    Four Scoring Chances |Fumb|ed Before Ellis Whip Crimson, 14–⁠6 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Nov. as Highly-favored Yale, which fun bled away its first four scoring chances, finally got rolling in the fourth period to defeat fighting Harvard. 14–⁠6, under gale conditions today before 10000 crowd at the stadium. Ed Senay turned in the longest run Of the 67th meeting of these ancient football rivals to set up the initial score just after the teams had changed goals for the last time. It was q 33-yard swing

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)

Yale 68% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

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 53 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Yale 45, Harvard 28
2024Yale 34, Harvard 29
2023Yale 23, Harvard 18
2022Yale 19, Harvard 14
2021Harvard 34, Yale 31
2019Yale 50, Harvard 43

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