Davidson at Harvard
Saturday, October 31, 1953 Share
Harvard beat Davidson 42–6. It was their third meeting; Harvard leads the series 3–0.
FinalHigh 58°F, low 52°F, 0.33 in. of rainAttendance 8,500
In the newspapers

Evening star, November 1, 1953, page 68
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Harvard Crushes Davidson, 42–6 CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Oct. 81. Tiny Carroll LowenStein raillied a stumbling Harvard football team during the 10th minute and wound up running for one touchdown and passing for five others today as the Crimson crushed victory-lesS Davidson, 42–6. But that one sided triumph was costly for Harvard as it came down to an objective game with Princeton. Quarterback Bob Hardy suffered a cracked right elbow on the second play and, after nine minutes, Capt. Dick ClaSby. Harvard’s great triple threat, suffered an injury to his passing arm. LowenStein, who was drafted into the Army before he could complete his term as Harvard S 1851 captain, replaced Clasby After Davidson punted outside on it’s %. Lowenstein got Harward headed in the right directon with a six-yard scoring run. In the second period, Lowenstein threw touchdown passes of 63, SIS, 81, so and SO yards Two fell into the hands of Dexter Lewis and the others were pulled in by Johnny Culyer, Bill Weber and Frank White. AS the first half was closing Bill Rowland saved Davidson from being blanked by feeding Jim Thacker a 55-yard touch down pass. Davidson payxan1 ----------7 0 g q 80 Davidson scoring; Touchdown = Thacker.
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 81% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Davidson–Harvard gameHarvard leads 3–0 in three meetings.
| 1953 | Harvard 42, Davidson 6 | |
| 1952 | Harvard 35, Davidson 26 | |
| 1937 | Harvard 15, Davidson 0 |
Around this game
Davidson
- Next gameat Washington and LeeNov. 7, 1953
- SeasonDavidson in 1953
- ProgramDavidson history and records
Harvard
- Next gamevs. PrincetonNov. 7, 1953
- SeasonHarvard in 1953
- ProgramHarvard history and records

