1913 Harvard Crimson football team

The 1913 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1913 college football season. The team finished with a 9–0 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and National Championship Foundation, and as a co-national champion with Chicago by Parke H. Davis.[1] They outscored their opponents 225 to 21.[2]

1913 Harvard Crimson football
National champion (Helms, Houlgate, NCF)
Co-national champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
1913 record9–0
Head coach
CaptainRobert Treat Paine Storer
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
1913 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Harvard      9 0 0
Carlisle      10 1 1
Wash. & Jeff.      10 0 1
Army      8 1 0
Dartmouth      7 1 0
Tufts      7 1 0
Colgate      6 1 1
Franklin & Marshall      6 2 0
Pittsburgh      6 2 1
Princeton      5 2 1
Yale      5 2 3
Rutgers      6 3 0
Penn      6 3 1
Villanova      4 2 1
Lehigh      5 3 0
Bucknell      6 4 0
Cornell      5 4 1
Boston College      4 3 1
Geneva      4 3 0
Syracuse      6 4 0
Fordham      3 3 2
Lafayette      4 5 1
Brown      4 5 0
Duquesne      3 5 1
Carnegie Tech      2 4 1
Temple      1 3 2
Penn State      2 6 0
Rhode Island State      2 6 0
NYU      0 8 0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
September 27MaineW 34–0
October 4Bates
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 14–0
October 11Williams
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 23–3
October 18Holy Cross
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 47–7
October 25Penn State
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 29–0
November 1Cornell
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 23–6
November 8at PrincetonW 3–0
November 15Brown
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 37–0
November 22at Yale
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 15–5

[2]

References

  1. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  2. "1913 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
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