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The 1902 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1902 college football season . The Crimson finished with an 11–1 record under first-year head coach John Wells Farley . The 1902 team won its first eleven games by a combined 184–23 score. It then closed the season with a 23–0 loss against rival Yale.[1] [2] Walter Camp selected two Harvard players as first-team selections to his 1902 College Football All-America Team . They were end Edward Bowditch and fullback Thomas Graydon .[3]
Schedule [ ]
Date Opponent Site Result Attendance Source September 27 Williams W 11–01,500 [4]
October 1 Bowdoin Soldiers' Field Boston, MA W 17–6500 [5]
October 4 Bates Soldiers' Field Boston, MA W 23–04,500–5,000 [6]
October 8 Amherst Soldiers' Field Boston, MA W 6–04,000 [7]
October 11 Maine Soldiers' Field Boston, MA W 22–0> 5,000 [8]
October 15 Wesleyan Soldiers' Field Boston, MA W 35–55,000 [9]
October 18 at Army W 14–6 [10]
October 25 Brown Soldiers' Field Boston, MA W 6–0>20,000 [11]
November 1 Carlisle Soldiers' Field Boston, MA W 23–016,000 [12]
November 8 Penn Soldiers' Field Boston, MA (rivalry ) W 11–0> 16,000 [13]
November 15 Dartmouth Soldiers' Field Boston, MA (rivalry ) W 16–610,000 [14]
November 22 at Yale L 0–2330,000 [15]
References [ ]
^ "1902 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results" . SR/College Football . Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017 .
^ "Harvard Football Yearly Records" . GoCrimson.com . Harvard University. Archived from the original on August 14, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2014 .
^ Michael MacCambridge, Dan Jenkins (2005). ESPN College Football Encyclopedia: The Complete History of College Football from 1869 to the Present . p. 1145.
^ "Only 11 Points: Harvard Plays Poorly Against Williams Team" . The Boston Globe . September 28, 1902. p. 1 – via NewspaperARCHIVE .
^ "Small Colleges Score on Harvard and Yale" . Boston Post . October 2, 1902. p. 3 – via NewspaperARCHIVE .
^ "Harvard Defeats Bates 23 to 0" . The Boston Globe . October 5, 1902. p. 10 – via NewspaperARCHIVE .
^ "Harvard Barely Beats Amherst" . The Boston Globe . October 9, 1902. p. 5 – via NewspaperARCHIVE .
^ "With Many Subs Harvard Defeats University of Maine 22 to 0" . The Boston Globe . October 12, 1902. p. 9 – via NewspaperARCHIVE .
^ "Harvard Varsity Overwhelms Wesleyan in the First Half" . The Boston Globe . October 16, 1902. p. 3 – via NewspaperARCHIVE .
^ "Harvard Beat Cadets" . The Boston Globe . October 19, 1902. p. 5 – via NewspaperARCHIVE .
^ "Harvard 6, Brown 0: Providence Gives Players Crimson a Bad Scare" . Boston Post . October 26, 1902. p. 1 – via NewspaperARCHIVE .
^ "Harvard 23, Carlisle 0: Unusually Spectacular Football on Soldiers Field" . The Boston Globe . November 2, 1902. p. 1 – via NewspaperARCHIVE .
^ "Penn Puts Up a Plucky Fight: Harvard Wins, But Only by a Score of 11 to 0" . The Boston Globe . November 9, 1902. p. 1 – via NewspaperARCHIVE .
^ "Dartmouth Scares Harvard" . The Boston Globe . November 16, 1902. pp. 1, 5 – via NewspaperARCHIVE .
^ "Yale 23, Harvard 0: Crimson Outclassed at Every Stage; 30,000 Saw Game" . Boston Post . November 23, 1902. p. 1 – via NewspaperARCHIVE .
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