1889 Harvard Crimson football team

The 1889 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1889 college football season. The Crimson finished with a 9–2 record. The team won its first ten games by a combined score of 404–6, but lost its last two games, against Princeton and Yale, giving up 41 points against Princeton.[1][2]

1889 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
1889 record9–2
Head coach
  • None
CaptainArthur Cumnock
Home stadiumJarvis Field
1889 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Princeton      10 0 0
Yale      15 1 0
Dartmouth      7 1 0
Harvard      9 2 0
Franklin & Marshall      5 1 1
Navy      4 1 1
Tufts      3 1 0
Lehigh      8 3 2
Cornell      8 4 0
Penn      7 6 0
Brown      2 2 0
Penn State      2 2 0
Delaware      1 1 1
Wesleyan      5 7 1
Bucknell      2 3 1
Amherst      3 5 2
Lafayette      3 4 2
Columbia      2 7 2
Fordham      1 3 0
Rutgers      1 4 0

Three Harvard players were selected as first-team players on the 1889 College Football All-America Team: end and team Arthur Cumnock, halfback James P. Lee, and guard John Cranston.[3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2 Phillips Exeter Cambridge, MAW 28–0 [4]
October 5 Stevens
W 28–4 [5]
October 12 Dartmouth
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA (rivalry)
W 38–0 [6]
October 16 MIT Cambridge, MAW 62–0
October 19 Williams Cambridge, MAW 41–0
October 23 Andover Cambridge, MAW 41–0
October 26 Wesleyan Cambridge, MAW 64–0
November 2 Penn Cambridge, MAW 35–0 [7]
November 9vs. Wesleyan Springfield, MAW 67–2 [8]
November 16 Princeton Cambridge, MA (rivalry)L 15–41 [9]
November 23vs. Yale
L 0–615,000[10]

References

  1. "1889 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. "Harvard Football Yearly Records". GoCrimson.com. Harvard University. Archived from the original on August 14, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  3. "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  4. "Football at Harvard: First Game of the Season -- Exeter Defeated". The Boston Globe. October 3, 1889. p. 8 via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  5. "Touchdown for Stevens: Harvard Fails to Shut Out Light Men". The Boston Globe. October 6, 1889 via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  6. "Harvard's Goal: Dartmouth Eleven Easily Defeated -- Score 38 to 0". The Boston Globe. October 13, 1889. p. 2 via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  7. "Harvard Beats Pennsylvania". The New York Times. November 3, 1889. p. 2 via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Harvard Defeats Wesleyan". The New York Times. November 10, 1889. p. 5 via Newspapers.com.
  9. "Harvard Went To Pieces". The New York Times. November 17, 1889. p. 5 via Newspapers.com.
  10. "Yale Wins From Harvard". The New York Times. November 24, 1889. p. 1 via Newspapers.com.
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