Chicago vs. Harvard

Chicago and Harvard first met in 1938 and have played 2 times; Harvard leads the series 2–⁠0. Over the last 2 meetings it’s Harvard 2–⁠0, and Harvard has won the last 2.

Chicago wins
0
Harvard wins
2
Ties
0
First meeting
1938
Longest streak
2 Harvard
Current streak
2 Harvard
Last 10 meetings
Harvard 2–⁠0
Most recent
1939

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Chicago and Harvard, 1938 on130015001700194019501960197019801990200020102020

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 Ely miner's story of the 1939 game: FEATURED IN harvard WIN Ed. Buckley Figures Directly in Scoring One-Third of Points Against Chicago.

    1939 · The Ely miner, Ely, Minn., Oct 19, 1939

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, 1939Harvard 61, Chicago 0at Chicago
Nov 5, 1938Harvard 47, Chicago 13at Harvard

Every game is listed as played on the field.