1903 Harvard Crimson football team

Harvard Crimson football
1903 Harvard Crimson football
Conference	Independent
1903 record	9–3
Head coach	John Cranston (1st season);
Home stadium	Soldiers' Field; Harvard Stadium

The 1903 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1903 college football season. The Crimson finished with a 9–3 record under first-year head coach John Cranston.[1][2] Walter Camp selected two Harvard players as first-team selections to his 1903 College Football All-America Team. They were tackle Daniel Knowlton and guard Andrew Marshall.[3]

The 1903 season was also notable for the opening of Harvard Stadium, which hosted its first game on November 14 against Dartmouth.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
September 23	Williams	Soldiers' Field Cambridge, MA	W 17–0
September 26	Bowdoin	Soldiers' Field Cambridge, MA	W 24–0
October 3	Maine	Soldiers' Field Cambridge, MA	W 6–0
October 7	Bates	Soldiers' Field Cambridge, MA	W 23–0
October 10	Amherst	Soldiers' Field Cambridge, MA	L 0–5
October 14	Wesleyan	Soldiers' Field Cambridge, MA	W 17–6
October 17	at Army	The Plain West Point, NY	W 5–0
October 24	Brown	Soldiers' Field Cambridge, MA	W 29–0
October 31	Carlisle	Soldiers' Field Cambridge, MA	W 12–11
November 7	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	W 17–10
November 14	Dartmouth	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	L 0–11
November 21	Yale	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	L 0–16

"1903 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
"Harvard Football Yearly Records". GoCrimson.com. Harvard University. Archived from the original on August 14, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
"Walter Camp Names All American Team". The Trenton Times. 1903-12-10.

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Harvard Crimson football
Venues	Jarvis Field Holmes Field Soldier's Field Harvard Stadium (1903–present)
Bowls and rivalries	1920 Rose Bowl Dartmouth Penn Princeton Yale
Culture and lore	"Ten Thousand Men of Harvard" 1874 McGill game 1921 Centre game 1968 Yale game (Harvard Beats Yale 29-29) 2004 Harvard–Yale prank
People	Head coaches NFL draftees
Seasons	1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
National championship seasons in bold

1903 Eastern college football independents records
	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Princeton		–		11	–	0	–	0
Yale		–		11	–	1	–	0
Columbia		–		9	–	1	–	0
Dartmouth		–		9	–	1	–	0
Geneva		–		9	–	1	–	0
Temple		–		4	–	1	–	0
Lehigh		–		9	–	2	–	1
Harvard		–		9	–	3	–	0
Penn		–		9	–	3	–	0
Army		–		6	–	2	–	1
Carlisle		–		6	–	2	–	1
Amherst		–		7	–	3	–	0
Lafayette		–		7	–	3	–	0
Cornell		–		6	–	3	–	1
Colgate		–		4	–	2	–	1
Penn State		–		5	–	3	–	0
Brown		–		5	–	4	–	1
Syracuse		–		5	–	4	–	0
Fordham		–		1	–	1	–	0
Frankin & Marshall		–		5	–	5	–	1
Rutgers		–		4	–	4	–	1
Villanova		–		2	–	2	–	0
Bucknell		–		4	–	5	–	0
Tufts		–		5	–	8	–	0
Pittsburgh College		–		3	–	5	–	0
Wesleyan		–		3	–	6	–	1
NYU		–		2	–	5	–	0
New Hampshire		–		2	–	6	–	1
Western U. Penn.		–		1	–	8	–	1