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. Share
- 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
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

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, 1939 | Harvard 61, Chicago 0 | at Chicago | ||
| Nov 5, 1938 | Harvard 47, Chicago 13 | at Harvard |
Every game is listed as played on the field.