Harvard–Princeton football rivalry
First meeting | April 28, 1877 Harvard, 1–0 |
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Latest meeting | October 21, 2023 Princeton, 21–14 |
Next meeting | October 26, 2024 |
Statistics | |
Meetings total | 115 |
All-time series | Princeton leads 60–48–7 |
Largest victory | Harvard, 49–7 (2014) |
Longest win streak | Harvard, 9 (1996–2004) |
Current win streak | Princeton, 6 (2017–present) |
The Harvard–Princeton football rivalry is an American
Significance
The football rivalry is constituent to the Big Three academic, athletic and social rivalry among alumni and students associated with Harvard, Yale and Princeton universities.
Agreements among the athletics departments in 1906, 1916, the "Three Presidents Agreement" on eligibility,[3] and a revision of that Agreement in 1923 have been considered precursors to the Ivy Group Agreement creating the Ivy League, each agreement addressing amateurism and college football.[4]
Twenty eight different teams, 17 representing Harvard and 11 representing Princeton, have shared or won outright the Ivy League football title.
Bad blood has flowed between the two football programs. Princeton, for example, turned down Harvard's offer of a
The 1920s was a nadir for athletic relations between the institutions.[vague]
Harvard and Princeton ceased the football series for nearly a decade, 1926 – 1934, in part because of an over the top
Notable games
1926
Princeton shut out Harvard, 12–0, then shunned Harvard for eight football seasons; then Princeton shut out Harvard, 19–0, in 1934. Thereafter, save the World War II years, the two programs have met annually.
1950
The
1951
The 1951 Princeton football team crushed the Crimson, 54–13 in Boston.
1967
Ellis Moore ran for five touchdowns versus Harvard. Moore's effort is the 20th-century Princeton record for rushing touchdowns in a game. Princeton won, 45–6. Moore rushed for three touchdowns versus Harvard two seasons later.
2012
Quinn Epperly tossed, with 0:13 remaining in the game, a 36-yard touchdown to Roman Wilson to take the lead and win eventually, 39–34, at
2016
"Princeton certainly didn't deserve to lose the game,"[8] Harvard's Tim Murphy said, a sentiment shared at least by Princeton partisans, after Harvard's 23 – 20 win at Princeton University Stadium. Joe Viviano, Harvard quarterback, scored from the one on second down after Princeton settled for a field goal in overtime. Harvard's Luke Hutton defended successfully a pass play at the one yard line during Princeton's overtime possession.
Princeton shares League title with Penn after Yale defeats Harvard later in the season, denying Harvard a fourth-straight outright or shared League title.
Game results
Harvard victories | Princeton victories | Tie games |
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See also
- List of NCAA college football rivalry games
- List of most-played college football series in NCAA Division I
References
- ^ "Harvard—Princeton Rivalry".
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved February 7, 2022.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ The Harvard Crimson, Princeton: A Second-Class Power? Was treated as Such the Roaring Twenties, November 10, 1961, by line James R. Ullyot
- Columbia, SC, Journal of Sport History, University of Illinois Press, pg. 188
- ^ princeton.edu/mudd/2014/11/a-princeton-thanksgiving
- ^ Princeton Football, Arcadia Press, Mount Pleasant, SC, by Mark F. Bernstein, 2009, pg. 50
- ^ Harvard Crimson, Princeton A Second Class Power? Was Treated As Such the Roaring Twenties, November 10, 1961, by line James R. Ullyot
- ^ The Boston Globe, October 22, 2016, Harvard Princeton game story, by line Paul Franklin, Globe Correspondent