1908 Harvard Crimson football team

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1908 Harvard Crimson football
National champion (Billingsley)
ConferenceIndependent
1908 record9–0–1
Head coach
  • Percy Haughton (1st season)
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
(Capacity: 42,000)
Seasons
← 1907
1909 →
1908 Eastern college football independents records
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 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn   –   11 – 0 – 1
Harvard   –   9 – 0 – 1
Cornell   –   7 – 1 – 1
Fordham   –   5 – 1 – 0
Yale   –   7 – 1 – 1
Dartmouth   –   6 – 1 – 1
Carlisle   –   10 – 2 – 1
Washington & Jefferson   –   10 – 2 – 1
Army   –   6 – 1 – 2
Pittsburgh   –   8 – 3 – 0
Lafayette   –   6 – 2 – 2
Princeton   –   5 – 2 – 3
Syracuse   –   6 – 3 – 1
Brown   –   5 – 3 – 1
Temple   –   3 – 2 – 1
Colgate   –   4 – 3 – 0
Lehigh   –   4 – 3 – 0
Dickinson   –   5 – 4 – 0
Amherst   –   3 – 3 – 2
Holy Cross   –   4 – 4 – 0
Penn State   –   5 – 5 – 0
Vermont   –   3 – 3 – 3
Wesleyan   –   3 – 4 – 2
NYU   –   2 – 3 – 2
Frankin & Marshall   –   4 – 6 – 1
Bucknell   –   3 – 5 – 2
Rutgers   –   3 – 5 – 1
Boston College   –   2 – 4 – 2
Carnegie Tech   –   3 – 7 – 0
Geneva   –   1 – 6 – 2
Tufts   –   1 – 6 – 1
Villanova   –   1 – 6 – 0
Drexel   –   0 – 7 – 0

The 1908 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1908 college football season. The team finished with a 9–0–1 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report.[1] They outscored their opponents 132 to 8.[2]

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResult
September 30Bowdoin
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 5–0
October 3Maine
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 16–0
October 7Bates
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 18–0
October 10Williams
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 10–0
October 17Springfield YMCA
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 44–0
October 24at Navy
  • Worden Field
  • Annapolis, MD
T 6–6
October 31Brown
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 6–2
November 7Carlisle
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 17–0
November 14Dartmouth
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 6–0
November 21at Yale
W 4–0

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. ^ "1908 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
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