Dartmouth at Harvard

Saturday, October 27, 1951

Dartmouth beat Harvard 26–⁠20. It was their 55th meeting; after it, Harvard led the series 31–⁠21–⁠3.

AwayDartmouth4–⁠5 in 1951
26
HomeHarvard3–⁠5–⁠1 in 1951
20

FinalHigh 67°F, low 51°F

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Dartmouth Scores 10 Points in Last Half Beats Harvard, $50

    Evening star, October 28, 1951, page 41

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    Dartmouth Scores 10 Points in Last Half Beats Harvard, $50 | CAMBRIDGE. Mass, Oct. 27-- Dartmouth’s football forces. slug gish in the first half, revived after intermission today and scored 20 points for a 1920 Ivy League triumph over Harvard. The Big Green was a one touch down fayorite but couldn’t push over the needed score until after ! 10 minutes OF play in the final quarter. Gene Howard, a Junior from Winnetka, ILL.,, sparked the Green to triumph after he took over quarterback in the second half, His eight-yard dash around right end. also provided Dartmouth with the needed points. Games Ends Spectaeularly. Howard. earlier, passed to q touchdown and scored another. The game, witnessed by 10000 ended spectacularly. On the sec ond from last play. Tailback Dick Clasby connected at midfield with End Fred Ravreby and the latter whizzed to Dartmouth’s 80 before he was downed. Another block and he would have gone all the way. The play covered about 43 yards. Clasby could neither break loose nor find any receivers on the next play and. after running back and forth, finally was downed about on the line of scrimmage as the final whistle blew. Penalties Stop Harvard Attack. Harvard seemed to be running on the momentum piled up in last weeks stirring 22–⁠21 triumph over Army. | However. two l5-yard penalties on consecutive plays, for inten- tionally grounding the ball seemed to take the steam out OF Harvard’S attack. Dartmouth ---- 6I3 7-of Harvard --..-~--. 13 o U-2t Dartmouth scoring: touchdowns-Jenni. son. Howard 90. Curtis. Conversions / Fry t21 | Harvard scoring touchdowns-Clasby / CD. Culver. Conversions Montieth t2).

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 72% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Harvard leads 63–⁠40–⁠4 in 107 meetings, counting the 52 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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