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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