Harvard vs. Oregon

Harvard won their only meeting, in 1919.

Harvard wins
1
Oregon wins
0
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1919
Longest streak
1 Harvard
Current streak
1 Harvard
Last 10 meetings
Harvard 1–⁠0
Most recent
1919

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Harvard and Oregon, 1919 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.

Stars of the series

Named most valuable

Eddie Casey Harvard1919

Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

From the newspapers

  • The Albuquerque morning journal's story of the 1919 game: BATTLE ROYAL ON GR|OIRON : IS WON BY HARVARD 7 To 6 Great Football Game Between East and West Played at Pasadena in Presence OF a Vast Throng. EASTERN TEAM GETS ONE CLEAN TOUCHDOWN Oregon Loses Choice of Po- Sition But Fights Gamely For Every Inch of Ground From First to Last.

    1919 · Albuquerque morning journal, Albuquerque, N.M., Jan 2, 1920

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.

Photos

From the rivalry’s and its games’ categories on Wikimedia Commons (free licenses only, each credited).

Every game

Jan 1, 1920Harvard 7, Oregon 6Neutral siteRose Bowl

Every game is listed as played on the field.