Colgate at Harvard
Saturday, October 10, 1953 Share
Harvard beat Colgate 28–26. It was their second meeting; after it, Harvard led the series 2–0.
FinalHigh 68°F, low 32°F
In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, October 11, 1953, page 67
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Harvard Nips Colgate, 1926 CIusby Figures in All Scores ing passes to Art Fox and Frank Nardulli from 13 and 38 yards out. Lalla also set up the other Colgate touchdown by going IL yards on a sneak and then pass ing to Frank Speno on Harvard’s l. from where Charlie Cooley scored on the fourth periods first play. Colgate ------- 13 o o 13–26 Harvard z IA z 0–2S Colgate scoring: Touchdowns-Fox Lalla, Cooley Nardull. Conversions Nardulli 2. Harvard scoring: Touchdowns-Cla by 3. Hardy. Conversions-J. Ross 4.
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)
Harvard 56% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Colgate–Harvard gameHarvard leads 4–2 in six meetings, counting the four since this game.
| 2026 | Harvard 20, Colgate 17 | |
| 1978 | Harvard 24, Colgate 21 | |
| 1977 | Colgate 38, Harvard 21 | |
| 1961 | Colgate 15, Harvard 0 | |
| 1953 | Harvard 28, Colgate 26 | |
| 1952 | Harvard 21, Colgate 20 |
Around this game
Colgate
- Next gameat DartmouthOct. 17, 1953
- SeasonColgate in 1953
- ProgramColgate history and records
Harvard
- Next gameat ColumbiaOct. 17, 1953
- SeasonHarvard in 1953
- ProgramHarvard history and records

