Harvard vs. Trinity (CT)
Harvard and Trinity (CT) first met in 1884 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
- Harvard wins
- 3
- Trinity (CT) wins
- 0
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1884
- Longest streak
- 3 Harvard
- Current streak
- 3 Harvard
- Last 10 meetings
- Harvard 3–0
- Most recent
- 1896
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 46.3 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Harvard
- 2–0 Harvard’s record at home
- At Trinity (CT)
- 0–1 Trinity (CT)‘s record at home
- Shutouts
- 3
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
1896 · The daily morning journal and courier, Oct 8, 1896
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 3, 1896 | Harvard 34, Trinity (CT) 0 | at Harvard | ||
| Nov 11, 1891 | Harvard 38, Trinity (CT) 0 | at Trinity (CT) | ||
| Oct 29, 1884 | Harvard 67, Trinity (CT) 0 | at Harvard |
Every game is listed as played on the field.