Harvard at Brown
Saturday, November 16, 1963 Share
Harvard beat Brown 24–12. It was their 63rd meeting; after it, Harvard led the series 46–15–2.
FinalHigh 57°F, low 39°F
In the newspapers

Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 18, 1963, page 19 (results column)
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piled the only major surprises. UCLA, winner Of only one previous game, dealt Washing ton a stunning 40 defeat. dimming the Huskies’ hopes to play in the Rose Bowl. Half back Byron Nelson scored both UCLA touchdowns. Wake Forest came through with a 20–19 victory over South Carolina on Brian Piccolo s conversion and thus ended the longest major losing streak at 10 games. Kentucky upset Bay lor, 1877. Mississippi, ranked No. 3 in the Nation, whipped Tennessee 200; Michigan State, No. 4, took Notre Dame, 1871; Okla homa, No. S, beat Misso uri, 1873; Pitt, No. 6, drubbed Army, $50; Alabama, No. Z, defeated Georgia Tech, 27–11; Illinois, No. 8, outfought Wis consin, 17–7; Auburn. No. 8, downed Georgia, 14–0, and Ne braska, No. 10. edged Okla homa State, 20–16. LaSt-SecOnd Victory In some Of the other major games, Oregon pulled out a 1922 victory over Indiana in the last IL seconds; Princeton thumped Yale, 27–7; Dart mouth edged Cornell, 1877; Harvard downed Brown, 24–12; Northwestern whipped Ohio State, 1913; Purdue nipped Minnesota, 1911; Michigan and Iowa tied, 21–2l. Penn State took Holy Cross 2S-14; Southern Methodist defeated Arkansas. lat; Texas AIM bested Rice, 1876; Wash ington State beat Stanford
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 71% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Harvard–Brown gameHarvard leads 78–24–2 in 104 meetings, counting the 41 since this game.
| 2026 | Harvard 14, Brown 10 | |
| 2025 | Harvard 41, Brown 7 | |
| 2024 | Brown 31, Harvard 28 | |
| 2023 | Harvard 34, Brown 31 | |
| 2022 | Harvard 35, Brown 28 | |
| 2021 | Harvard 49, Brown 17 |
Around this game
Harvard
- Next gameat YaleNov. 30, 1963
- SeasonHarvard in 1963
- ProgramHarvard history and records
Brown
- Next gamevs. LafayetteSept. 26, 1964
- SeasonBrown in 1963
- ProgramBrown history and records

