Harvard at Yale

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, November 25, 1951, page 50

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  Yale and Harvard Tie, 27 to n, As Ellis Rally Late in Game NEW HAVEN, Conn. Nov. “a Yale and Harvard, once mighty football powers. turned in a thrill ing battle today which ended in a +21–⁠21 tie amid as exciting a finish as these Ivy League rivals have ever staged. It was the first tie this series, which began in 1875. has had in 26 years and the crowd of $1,000 was yelling wildly at the final gun Yale, never behind until the final five minutes, rallied to knot the game with only 81 seconds to 60. Harvard appeared to have clinched the 68th meeting between these old rivals when Fritz Drill, a reserve end, intercepted Ed Mol loy’s pass on the Yale 18 and scampered across the goal line. That was at 1906 in the final quarter. But, the Ellis unleased 55,9ard drive with Molloy, standing on the

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.

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 52 since this game.