1912 Harvard Crimson football team

The 1912 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1912 college football season. The team finished with a 9–0 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and Parke H. Davis, and as a co-national champion by the National Championship Foundation.[1] They outscored their opponents 176 to 22.[2]

1912 Harvard Crimson football
National champion
(Billingsley, Helms, Houlgate, Davis)
Co-national champion (NCF)
ConferenceIndependent
1912 record9–0
Head coach
CaptainPercy Langdon Wendell
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
1912 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Harvard   –    9 –0 –0
Penn State   –    8 –0 –0
Carlisle   –    12 –1 –1
Princeton   –    7 –1 –1
Yale   –    7 –1 –1
Lehigh   –    9 –2 –0
Dartmouth   –    7 –2 –0
Wesleyan   –    7 –2 –0
Colgate   –    5 –2 –0
Wash. & Jeff.   –    8 –3 –1
Rhode Island State   –    6 –3 –0
Bucknell   –    6 –3 –1
Temple   –    3 –2 –0
Penn   –    7 –4 –0
Army   –    5 –3 –0
Brown   –    6 –4 –0
Franklin & Marshall   –    6 –4 –0
Rutgers   –    5 –4 –0
Tufts   –    5 –4 –0
Fordham   –    4 –4 –0
Villanova   –    3 –3 –0
Morris Harvey   –    2 –2 –0
Lafayette   –    4 –5 –1
Syracuse   –    4 –5 –0
Carnegie Tech   –    3 –4 –1
Geneva   –    3 –4 –0
Pittsburgh   –    3 –6 –0
Boston College   –    2 –4 –1
Cornell   –    3 –7 –0
NYU   –    2 –6 –0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
September 28MaineW 7–0
October 5Holy Cross
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 19–0
October 12Williams
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 26–3
October 19Amherst
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 46–0
October 26Brown
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 30–10
November 2Princeton
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 16–6
November 9Vanderbilt
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 9–3
November 16Dartmouth
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 3–0
November 23at YaleW 20–0

[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. "1912 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
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