Bowdoin vs. Harvard
Bowdoin and Harvard have 17 meetings on file, the first in 1890; Harvard leads the series 17–0 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Harvard 10–0, and Harvard has won the last 17. Share
- Bowdoin wins
- 0
- Harvard wins
- 17
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1890
- Longest streak
- 17 Harvard
- Current streak
- 17 Harvard
- Last 10 meetings
- Harvard 10–0
- Most recent
- 1922
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 0–5 | ||||||||||
| 1900s | 0–10 | ||||||||||
| 1910s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1920s | 0–1 |
- Average margin
- 21.6 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Harvard
- 17–0 Harvard’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 15
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Harvard’s biggest win1891: Harvard 79, Bowdoin 0by 79 points
Both programs through the years
Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.
From the newspapers
1890 · The Portland daily press, Portland, Me., Oct 27, 1890
1899 · The Saint Paul globe, St. Paul, Minn., Oct 5, 1899
1900 · The Portland daily press, Maine, Oct 8, 1900
1901 · The Indianapolis journal, Indianapolis [Ind.], Oct 3, 1901
1902 · Daily Kennebec journal, Augusta, Me., Oct 2, 1902
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 earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.
Every game
| Oct 14, 1922 | Harvard 15, Bowdoin 0 | at Harvard | ||
| Oct 1, 1910 | Harvard 32, Bowdoin 0 | at Harvard | ||
| Oct 2, 1909 | Harvard 17, Bowdoin 0 | at Harvard | ||
| Sep 19, 1908 | Harvard 5, Bowdoin 0 | at Harvard | ||
| Sep 28, 1907 | Harvard 5, Bowdoin 0 | at Harvard | ||
| Sep 26, 1906 | Harvard 10, Bowdoin 0 | at Harvard | ||
| Oct 3, 1905 | Harvard 16, Bowdoin 0 | at Harvard | ||
| Oct 5, 1904 | Harvard 17, Bowdoin 0 | at Harvard | ||
| Sep 26, 1903 | Harvard 24, Bowdoin 0 | at Harvard | ||
| Oct 1, 1902 | Harvard 17, Bowdoin 6 | at Harvard | ||
| Oct 2, 1901 | Harvard 12, Bowdoin 0 | at Harvard | ||
| Oct 6, 1900 | Harvard 12, Bowdoin 0 | at Harvard | ||
| Oct 4, 1899 | Harvard 13, Bowdoin 0 | at Harvard | ||
| Sep 28, 1898 | Harvard 28, Bowdoin 6 | at Harvard | ||
| Sep 29, 1897 | Harvard 24, Bowdoin 0 | at Harvard | ||
| Oct 28, 1891 | Harvard 79, Bowdoin 0 | at Harvard | ||
| Oct 22, 1890 | Harvard 54, Bowdoin 0 | at Harvard |
Every game is listed as played on the field.