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Harvard vs. Maine

Harvard and Maine first met in 1902 and have played 11 times; Harvard leads the series 11–⁠0. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Harvard 10–⁠0, and Harvard has won the last 11.

Harvard wins
11
Maine wins
0
Ties
0
First meeting
1902
Longest streak
11 Harvard
Current streak
11 Harvard
Last 10 meetings
Harvard 10–⁠0
Most recent
1920

The series at a glance

’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s8–⁠0
1910s2–⁠0
1920s1–⁠0
Average margin
21.4 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Harvard
11–⁠0 Harvard’s record at home
Shutouts
11

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

Games that tell the story

  1. Harvard’s biggest win1920: Harvard 41, Maine 0by 41 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Harvard and Maine, 1902 on130015001700192019401960198020002020

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 Topeka state journal's story of the 1902 game: SPORTING NEWS. A Topeka Football Team Wins a Good Game. High School Players Defeated Kansas City Centrals. SCORE So TO NOTHING. Harvard Victorious Over Maine by Score of go. Yale Easily Sends Brown Down the Line.

    1902 · The Topeka state journal, Topeka, Kansas, Oct 13, 1902

  • The Daily Kennebec journal's story of the 1903 game: FOOT BALL. Harvard Only Scores Six Points on U. of Maine. Bowdoin Defeats New Hampshire State College, 10 to 0. Amherst Gets Away with Colby by Score of "a to o.

    1903 · Daily Kennebec journal, Augusta, Me., Oct 5, 1903

  • The Daily Kennebec journal's story of the 1904 game: ON GRIDIR0N. Harvard Defeats Maine Twenty-three to Nothing. Colby Wins Over New Hamu. shire State College. Bates Bites the Dust to Phillips.Exater Eleven.

    1904 · Daily Kennebec journal, Augusta, Me., Oct 10, 1904

  • The Daily Kennebec journal's story of the 1905 game: Maine Well Satisfied With Its Football Team. Bates Will Try Harvard, To-day, At Cambridge, Mass. BoWdoin Has Large Number Of New Men In the Upper Glasses.

    1905 · Daily Kennebec journal, Augusta, Me., Oct 11, 1905

  • The New-York tribune's story of the 1909 game: HARVARD DRUBS MAINE PENN DEFEATS BROWN BLOCKED KICKS FATAL. Tumble Leads Up to Touchdo70n By the Providence Eleven.

    1909 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Oct 17, 1909

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 2, 1920Harvard 41, Maine 0at Harvard
Sep 27, 1913Harvard 34, Maine 0at Harvard
Sep 28, 1912Harvard 7, Maine 0at Harvard
Oct 16, 1909Harvard 17, Maine 0at Harvard
Sep 26, 1908Harvard 16, Maine 0at Harvard
Oct 2, 1907Harvard 30, Maine 0at Harvard
Sep 29, 1906Harvard 17, Maine 0at Harvard
Oct 7, 1905Harvard 22, Maine 0at Harvard
Oct 8, 1904Harvard 23, Maine 0at Harvard
Oct 3, 1903Harvard 6, Maine 0at Harvard
Oct 11, 1902Harvard 22, Maine 0at Harvard

Every game is listed as played on the field.