Exeter vs. Harvard
Exeter and Harvard have 11 meetings on file, the first in 1886; Harvard leads the series 11–0 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Harvard 10–0, and Harvard has won the last 11. Share
- Exeter wins
- 0
- Harvard wins
- 11
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1886
- Longest streak
- 11 Harvard
- Current streak
- 11 Harvard
- Last 10 meetings
- Harvard 10–0
- Most recent
- 1895
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 54.2 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Exeter
- 0–3 Exeter’s record at home
- At Harvard
- 8–0 Harvard’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 10
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Harvard’s biggest win1886: Harvard 158, Exeter 0by 158 points
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

1892 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Oct 6, 1892

1895 · The herald, Los Angeles [Calif.], Oct 10, 1895
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, 1895 | Harvard 42, Exeter 0 | at Harvard | ||
| Oct 3, 1894 | Harvard 48, Exeter 0 | at Harvard | ||
| Oct 4, 1893 | Harvard 54, Exeter 0 | at Harvard | ||
| Oct 5, 1892 | Harvard 62, Exeter 0 | at Harvard | ||
| Oct 7, 1891 | Harvard 17, Exeter 0 | at Harvard | ||
| Oct 4, 1890 | Harvard 41, Exeter 0 | at Harvard | ||
| Oct 2, 1889 | Harvard 28, Exeter 0 | at Harvard | ||
| Oct 10, 1888 | Harvard 30, Exeter 6 | at Exeter | ||
| Nov 2, 1887 | Harvard 54, Exeter 0 | at Harvard | ||
| Oct 5, 1887 | Harvard 68, Exeter 0 | at Exeter | ||
| Nov 3, 1886 | Harvard 158, Exeter 0 | at Exeter |
Every game is listed as played on the field.