Princeton at Harvard
Saturday, November 7, 1953 Share
Princeton beat Harvard 6–0. It was their 46th meeting; after it, Princeton led the series 27–14–5.
FinalHigh 53°F, low 36°F, 1.39 in. of rain
In the newspapers

Evening star, November 8, 1953, page 69
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Princeton Tops Harvard 60 Columbia Beats Dartmouth Isl West Is Top Star, but Army OverWheIms N. c. State, 27–7 formance wasn’t enough to over come Army’s superior team speed and strength and defensive alertnesS. Gerald Lodge, who scored two touchdowns, and Quarterback Pete Vann, who scored one, passed for another and played all but the last few minutes of the game, were Army’s best operativeS. N. C. State ------- z o O o. : Army ---~------ 7 8 0 14–27 N. C. State scoring: Touchdown--West Conversion-D’An Angelo. Army. scoring: Touchdowns-Holleder g. Lodge (2), Vann. Conversions Cockrell. Chesnauskas (2).
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)
Princeton 58% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Princeton–Harvard gamePrinceton leads 51–37–7 in 95 meetings, counting the 49 since this game.
| 2025 | Harvard 35, Princeton 14 | |
| 2024 | Harvard 45, Princeton 13 | |
| 2023 | Princeton 21, Harvard 14 | |
| 2022 | Princeton 37, Harvard 10 | |
| 2021 | Princeton 18, Harvard 16 | |
| 2019 | Princeton 30, Harvard 24 |
Around this game
Princeton
- Next gamevs. YaleNov. 14, 1953
- SeasonPrinceton in 1953
- ProgramPrinceton history and records
Harvard
- Next gamevs. BrownNov. 14, 1953
- SeasonHarvard in 1953
- ProgramHarvard history and records

