THE GAME HIGHLIGHTS

Highlights of the 136 football games between Harvard and Yale (Yale leads the series, 68-60-8):

Nov. 13, 1875: Series began in New Haven’s Hamilton Park. Harvard wins 4-0.

Nov. 12, 1881: Yale kicks first onside kick. 0-0 tie.

Nov. 19, 1892: Flying wedge used for the first time. Yale wins 6-0.

Nov. 25, 1893: Harvard wears leather uniforms. Yale wins 6-0.

Nov. 13, 1897: More than 20,000 in attendance in Cambridge. 0-0 tie.

Nov. 24, 1900: Yale wins national championship and game 28-0.

Nov. 21, 1914: First game in the Yale Bowl. Harvard wins 36-0.

Nov. 20, 1920: Yale Bowl overflows with 80,000, then the largest event ever in the U.S. Harvard wins 9-0.

Nov. 23, 1929: Played at Soldiers Field. Harvard wins 10-6.

Nov. 22, 1930: First radio broadcast overseas of football game. Harvard wins 13-0.

Nov. 23, 1946: Yale overcomes 14-0 deficit to win 27-14.

Nov. 20, 1954: Harvard wins its 500th game with 13-9 win over Yale.

Nov. 23, 1968: Harvard scores two touchdowns in 42 seconds, prompting the famous headline in the Harvard Crimson: “Harvard beats Yale, 29-29.” Both teams finish 8-0-1.

Nov. 25, 1972: Yale overcomes 17-0 halftime deficit to win 28-17.

Nov. 23, 1974: QB Milt Holt scores on a 1-yard run with :15 seconds left in 21-16

Harvard win. It culminated a 95-yard drive and end Yale’s perfect season.

Nov. 22, 1975: Mike Lynch’s 26-yard field goal with :33 seconds left gives Harvard 10-7 win. It was the 100th anniversary of the first game.

Nov. 20, 1982: Game is interrupted for several minutes when just after a secondquarter Harvard score, a black weather balloon bearing the letters MIT rose, inflated and exploded on the 45 yard line. Harvard won 45-7.

Nov. 19, 1983: The 100th game of the series. Harvard wins 16-7.

Nov. 18, 1995: Harvard’s Eion Hu scores from 2 yards out with 29 seconds left in 22-21 win for Crimson.

Nov. 23, 1996: Carm Cozza’s last game. Harvard wins 26-21.

Nov. 20, 1999: Eric Johnson (21 catches, 244 yards) scoops up a pass with 29 seconds left in a 24-21 Yale win.

Nov. 17, 2001: Harvard wraps up first perfect season since 1913 with a 35-23 win.

Nov. 20, 2004: Harvard beats Yale for a fourth straight year, something it had never done in 82 seasons, to complete perfect season and win 11th Ivy League title.

Nov. 19, 2005: Harvard beats Yale for fifth straight year, winning 30-24 in triple overtime, the longest game in the history of Yale Bowl or the Ivy League.

Nov. 17, 2007: With both teams unbeaten in Ivy play coming in, Harvard’s 37-6 win denies Yale its first perfect season since 1960 and begins a nine-year Crimson winning streak.

Nov. 22, 2014: After Yale comes from 17 points down in the fourth quarter to tie the game, Harvard scores with 55 seconds left to win 31-24, completing an undefeated season and denying the Bulldogs a threeway share of the championship.

Nov. 21, 2015: Temporary lights allow for a 2:30 p.m. kickoff at the Bowl. Harvard wins 38-19 to share the Ivy championship.

Nov. 19, 2016: Yale wins 21-14, denying the Crimson a share of a fourth league championship in a row.

Nov. 18, 2017: The Yale defense holds Harvard to 164 yards, sacking Crimson quarterbacks six times, intercepting two passes, and recovering two fumbles, one for a touchdown in a 24-3 win that earned the Bulldogs their first outright Ivy League title since 1980.

Nov. 17, 2018: Yale and Harvard play at Fenway Park. The Crimson come back to win 45-27 in the highest-scoring meeting at the time between the teams.

Nov. 23, 2019: The Game is delayed an hour by a halftime climate-change protest. Yale comes back from 17 points down in the fourth quarter and wins 50-43 in double overtime at 4:39 p.m. in near darkness, earning a share of the Ivy title.