Davidson at Harvard

Saturday, October 31, 1953

Harvard beat Davidson 42–⁠6. It was their third meeting; Harvard leads the series 3–⁠0.

AwayDavidson0–⁠9 in 1953
6
HomeHarvard6–⁠2 in 1953
42

FinalHigh 58°F, low 52°F, 0.33 in. of rainAttendance 8,500

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Harvard Crushes Davidson, 42-6

    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.

Harvard leads 3–⁠0 in three meetings.

Recent meetings
1953Harvard 42, Davidson 6
1952Harvard 35, Davidson 26
1937Harvard 15, Davidson 0

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