Harvard vs. Pennsylvania

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

1. Harvard’s biggest win1888: Harvard 50, Pennsylvania 0by 50 points
2. Pennsylvania’s biggest win1927: Pennsylvania 24, Harvard 0by 24 points
3. Upset2015: Pennsylvania 35, Harvard 25Pennsylvania had a 19% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1963: Pennsylvania 7, Harvard 2Pennsylvania had a 25% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1972: Pennsylvania 38, Harvard 27Pennsylvania had a 26% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Harvard’s side (Harlow 0–⁠3–⁠1 against Munger). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

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.

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  1884 · Morning journal and courier, Oct 27, 1884

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  1886 · Morning journal and courier, Connecticut, Nov 27, 1886

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  1889 · , Nov 6, 1889

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  1893 · St. Paul daily globe, Saint Paul, Minn., Dec 1, 1893

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  1894 · Evening journal, Delaware, Nov 30, 1894

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 is listed as played on the field.

• Harvard vs. Yale120 meetings, Harvard 50–⁠62–⁠8
• Harvard vs. Dartmouth107 meetings, Harvard 63–⁠40–⁠4
• Harvard vs. Brown104 meetings, Harvard 78–⁠24–⁠2
• Harvard vs. Princeton95 meetings, Harvard 37–⁠51–⁠7
• Pennsylvania vs. Cornell110 meetings, Pennsylvania 65–⁠40–⁠5
• Pennsylvania vs. Princeton95 meetings, Pennsylvania 31–⁠63–⁠1
• Pennsylvania vs. Columbia84 meetings, Pennsylvania 61–⁠22–⁠1
• Pennsylvania vs. Lafayette80 meetings, Pennsylvania 55–⁠21–⁠4