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Carlisle vs. Harvard

Carlisle and Harvard first met in 1896 and have played 14 times; Harvard leads the series 12–⁠2. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Harvard 8–⁠2.

Carlisle wins
2
Harvard wins
12
Ties
0
First meeting
1896
Longest streak
10 Harvard
Current streak
1 Harvard
Last 10 meetings
Harvard 8–⁠2
Most recent
1915

The series at a glance

’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1890s0–⁠3
1900s1–⁠8
1910s1–⁠1
Average margin
11.9 points; 6 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Harvard
12–⁠2 Harvard’s record at home
Shutouts
6

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

Games that tell the story

  1. Carlisle’s biggest win1907: Carlisle 23, Harvard 15by 8 points
  2. Harvard’s biggest win1901: Harvard 29, Carlisle 0by 29 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Carlisle and Harvard, 1896 on1300150017001900190519101915

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

  • The The morning times's story of the 1896 game: HARvARD's PLUCKY GAME. Defeated the Carlisle Indians by & Score of i to o.

    1896 · The morning times, District of Columbia, Nov 1, 1896

  • The The times's story of the 1898 game: 'HARVARD'S CLOSE CALL Carlisle Indians Defeated in a Hafd-FOught Game. cRIMSON'S RAGGED WORK The Cambridge Boys BACKS Show Up Well in the Punting Lines, hut the Tackles Prove Exceptionally Weak-Hain Falls, Throughout the Contcst-Dctails of the Game.

    1898 · The times, Oct 30, 1898

  • The New-York tribune's story of the 1899 game: THE WINNING RUN. HARVARD Downs THE INDIANS. CAMBRIDGE ELEVEN MAKES A FINE SHOW Nc ID TO 10 TNE SCORE.

    1899 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Oct 29, 1899

  • The New-York tribune's story of the 1900 game: HARVARD, II; CARLISLE INDIANS, ). INDIANS SCORE FIRST BUT HARvARD's STRENGTH WEARS THEM OUT.

    1900 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Oct 28, 1900

  • The The San Francisco call's story of the 1901 game: HARVARD WINS FROM CARLISLE Indians No Match for the Crimson at Cambridge. Yale's Eleven Triumphs Over Columbia's Team in New Haven.

    1901 · The San Francisco call, Oct 27, 1901

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 9, 1915Harvard 29, Carlisle 7at Harvard
Nov 11, 1911Carlisle 18, Harvard 15at Harvard
Nov 7, 1908Harvard 17, Carlisle 0at Harvard
Nov 9, 1907Carlisle 23, Harvard 15at Harvard
Nov 10, 1906Harvard 5, Carlisle 0at Harvard
Nov 4, 1905Harvard 23, Carlisle 11at Harvard
Oct 22, 1904Harvard 12, Carlisle 0at Harvard
Oct 31, 1903Harvard 12, Carlisle 11at Harvard
Nov 1, 1902Harvard 23, Carlisle 0at Harvard
Oct 26, 1901Harvard 29, Carlisle 0at Harvard
Oct 27, 1900Harvard 17, Carlisle 5at Harvard
Oct 28, 1899Harvard 22, Carlisle 10at Harvard
Oct 29, 1898Harvard 11, Carlisle 5at Harvard
Oct 31, 1896Harvard 4, Carlisle 0at Harvard

Every game is listed as played on the field.