1919 Harvard Crimson football team

The 1919 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1919 college football season. They finished with a 9–0–1 record and were retroactively named as the 1919 national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and the Houlgate System, and as a co-national champion by the College Football Researchers Association, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.[1] They outscored their opponents 229 to 19.[2]

1919 Harvard Crimson football
National champion (Helms, Houlgate)
Co-national champion (CFRA, NCF, Davis)
Rose Bowl champion
Rose Bowl, W 7–6 vs. Oregon
ConferenceIndependent
1919 record9–0–1
Head coach
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
1919 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Harvard      9 0 1
Penn State      7 1 0
Dartmouth      6 1 1
Colgate      5 1 1
New Hampshire      7 2 0
Lafayette      6 2 0
Wash. & Jeff.      6 2 0
Williams      6 2 0
Syracuse      8 3 0
Penn      6 2 1
Pittsburgh      6 2 1
Lehigh      6 3 0
Princeton      4 2 1
Geneva      4 2 2
Army      6 3 0
Boston College      5 3 0
Yale      5 3 0
Rutgers      5 3 0
Villanova      5 3 1
Brown      5 4 1
Bucknell      5 4 1
NYU      4 4 0
Carnegie Tech      3 4 0
Columbia      2 4 3
Cornell      3 5 0
Franklin & Marshall      2 4 2
Tufts      2 5 0
Rhode Island State      0 8 1
Drexel      0 4 0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendance
September 27BatesW 53–0
October 4Boston College
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 17–020,000
October 11Colby
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 35–0
October 18Brown
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 7–0
October 25Virginia
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 47–0
November 1Springfield YMCA
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 20–0
November 8at PrincetonT 10–10
November 15Tufts
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 23–0
November 22Yale
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 10–3
January 1, 1920vs. OregonW 7–635,000

[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. "1919 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
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