Cornell at Harvard

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  Pittsburg dispatch, Pittsburg [Pa.], November 2, 1890, page 5

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  CORNELL BADLY BEATEN. Harvard’s Kickers Have Picnic and Win by a Score of a. to o. FhdNB Il dIII W by a Score of a. to O. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. CAMBRIDGE, November L-Cornell’s foot ball players furnished Harvard’s aggregation with the biggest score of the season to-day. the figures being “a to 0. In the game with AM herst Harvard scored 76 points. The visiting players did not show up very we’ll in the first half, and the Harvard men had little trouble in breaking through the lines. which was considerably lighter than Harvard’s. There was some fumbling but in the first half Harvard had no trouble in rolling up 81 points. In the second half Harvard scored but 25 points. The Cornell men braced up wonder fully, and more than once had the ball near Harvard’s goal, but lost their advantage by stupid PLAYING and fumbles. Although Harward had a chance to make six touchdowns in the second half they were not attempted.

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.

Harvard leads 47–⁠21–⁠1 in 69 meetings, counting the 68 since this game.