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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