Williams at Harvard

Saturday, October 10, 1908

Harvard beat Williams 10–⁠0. It was their 24th meeting; after it, Harvard led the series 24–⁠0.

AwayWilliams0–⁠2 in 1908
0
HomeHarvard9–⁠0–⁠1 in 1908
10

FinalHigh 62°F, low 46°FAttendance 12,000

In the newspapers

  • The Daily Kennebec journal's story: BROWN TWELVE, BOWD0|N ZERO COLBY 6; new HAMPS SHIRE 0. Maine Beats Fort Mckinley SO to o.. Harvard Trims Williams 10 to o. Yale Is; Holy Cross O---Dart- mouth rs; Tufts O.

    Daily Kennebec journal, Augusta, Me., October 12, 1908, page 4

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    BROWN TWELVE, BOWD0|N ZERO COLBY 6; new HAMPS SHIRE 0. Maine Beats Fort Mckinley SO to o.. Harvard Trims Williams 10 to o. Yale Is; Holy Cross O---Dart- mouth rs; Tufts O. Providence, oct. ll.-Rowdoin was beaten BY Brown Saturday II to y. The game was poorly played. Bowd”in esp g. tally putting up a rough article. Brown also Was in somewhat crude form. aud there We’re many fumbles. The forward pass was not worried sue cessfulv once. Brown scored its ‘rSt touchdown in the first half. when after four minutes Of play the bah advanced to BoWdoiI’S l0-yard line. Mckay secured possession Of it and ran it arollrd right end for :; touchdown. Donnie kicked the goal. Tie second Brown score MAS on q fumbled forward PASS. SpreckiIn tileW the bah to IIartigan, who had gone in al LETT end Ialtigan fumbled, but reeained possession Of the BAH ana carried il |across the lire. Mckay and Mayhem, Browns star halves, played Wei, the work of the for mer on the defence being especially no ticeable. Fer Bowdoin, Haley at euar’ did good work. The Bowdoin coach, after the game. il comparing the merits of Brown and liar vard said he thought the chances of victory for Brown on oct. 81 Wcr” very bright. considering the fact that ssTeia strong additions 10 the Brown line w”ult be made lefore that time. The summary BROWN BON’DOIN Hartigan (Gormam, le...-...re. u. S,nit kirley, It Observation-Disclosures. II. Cr”sp! kcresey. lG ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. .g EHfn sisson, { Observation-Disclosures. e, MGp4d r. Smith. re .................-... y. Haley Dennie. re NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. le. Nandtk’ Sprecklin Jarvis,. qh............Qh. Wilson

  • The Waterbury evening Democrat's story

    Waterbury evening Democrat, Connecticut, October 12, 1908, page 9

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    Captain Burr of the Harvard eleven scored field goal from the 43- yard line against Williams in the game at Cambridge. Harvard made a touchdown in the early part of the second half. The score was 10 to 0 in Harvard’s favor. Winter and Pratt the Williams ends, were very fast. Bill Edwards was the umpire and Harvard was frequently penalized for holding.

  • The The Barre daily times's story: HARVARD HAS NO WALK OVER WITH WILLIAMS Holy Cross Holds Yale to Low Score Amherst Plays Vermont Tie Game Lafayette Scarcs Princeton.

    The Barre daily times, Barre, Vt., October 12, 1908, page 2 (results column)

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    HARVARD HAS NO WALK OVER WITH WILLIAMS Holy Cross Holds Yale to Low Score Amherst Plays Vermont Tie Game Lafayette Scarcs Princeton. The Harvard.William contest Sat. urday went TO Harvard, 10 to 0. Will liams was expected TO make strong showing against the crimson and fulfill. ed the prophecy. During the first half Harvard could not cross the Williams line, the only score coming from a goal from placement by Burr. In the sec ond period the Cambridge eleven was forced to work hard 10 score its solitary touchdown. Yale made poor showing against Holy Cross. The Wor. eester team did not show any alarming ability and was unable TO gain any ground. Yale, however, made but three touchdowns. Pennsylvania and Prince. ton had plenty TO do. penn” barely defeated penn” state, and Princeton played Lafayette a tie game, TO O. The latter contest was one Of the sur prises of the day. II was expected that Princeton would make frst.class showing against Lafayette, but results showed many imperfections in the “Tigers” play. Amherst struggled with Vermont without scoring and, consider ing the strength shown by the latter eleven, Amherst was lucky to get away with tie game. Wesleyan had a rough.and tumble match with Union ct Schenectady, N. Y, in which II play ers were forced to the side lines on account Of hard knocks. West Point found Trinity easy, and Annapolis won handily from Dickinson. The results foIIow.--

  • The Bismarck daily tribune's story: FOOT BALL HARVARD, YALE, DARTMOUTH 1 AND WEST POINT WIN - PRINCETON DOES NOT SCORE. Chicago, 20; Indiana, 6. Illinois, s.; Marquette, 6. Nebraska 20; Grinnel S. $ Michigan o.; Agricultural college

    Bismarck daily tribune, Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.], October 11, 1908, page 1 (results column)

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    FOOT BALL HARVARD, YALE, DARTMOUTH 1 AND WEST POINT WIN – PRINCETON DOES NOT SCORE. Chicago, 20; Indiana, 6. Illinois, s.; Marquette, 6. Nebraska 20; Grinnel S. $ Michigan o.; Agricultural college Michigan “; Agricultural coneSe, 8. 5s s.e->,. ~ Beliot 6; Lake Forest 6. Navy ~; Dickinson O. Princeton O.; Lafayette O. West Point SO; Trinity o. Brown IL; Bowdoin O.. - Yale Freshmen 5; Andoyer o. Cornell 90; Oberlin 10. vi a. Dartmouth IS; Tufts S. 7 5l5stS Creighton 5; Morning Side S. Princeton Freshmen IL; Exetor 10. b Yale 10; Holy Cross o. Harvard 10; Williams 0. D5s Pennsylvania 6; State College 0. j Wisconsin 35; Lawrence 0. Purdue 40; Eartham 0. Notre Dame 40; Franklin o. =. Lexington, KY, Oct 10.-owing to heavy rains today, the trotting meet today was called off. An extra day, October II, will be used to carry out the program. >

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

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Our ratings (scores only)

Harvard 81% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Harvard leads 30–⁠0 in 30 meetings, counting the six since this game.

Recent meetings
1920Harvard 38, Williams 0
1913Harvard 23, Williams 3
1912Harvard 26, Williams 3
1911Harvard 18, Williams 0
1910Harvard 21, Williams 0
1909Harvard 8, Williams 6

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