Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Centre’s side (Moran 1–2 against Fisher). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.
Both programs through the years
Centre HarvardTicks under the axis: each meeting, in the winner’s color
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
1920 · The Washington times, District of Columbia, Oct 24, 1920
1922 · South Bend news-times, South Bend, Ind., Oct 22, 1922
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.
Photos
Bo McMillin in the 1921 Centre vs. Harvard football gamePhoto: Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsThe 1921 game
A “C6 H0” marking on the side of the 847 West Walnut building, in the Centre College Warehouse District in Danville, KentuckyPhoto: PCN02WPS, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe 1921 game