Colby vs. Harvard
Colby and Harvard first met in 1915 and have played 3 times; Harvard leads the series 3–0. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Harvard 3–0, and Harvard has won the last 3. Share
- Colby wins
- 0
- Harvard wins
- 3
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1915
- Longest streak
- 3 Harvard
- Current streak
- 3 Harvard
- Last 10 meetings
- Harvard 3–0
- Most recent
- 1919
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 26 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Harvard
- 3–0 Harvard’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 2
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
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
1915 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Sep 26, 1915
1916 · The sun, New York, Sep 24, 1916
1919 · The sun, New York, Oct 12, 1919
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 11, 1919 | Harvard 35, Colby 0 | at Harvard | ||
| Sep 23, 1916 | Harvard 10, Colby 0 | at Harvard | ||
| Sep 25, 1915 | Harvard 39, Colby 6 | at Harvard |
Every game is listed as played on the field.