1912 Harvard Crimson football team

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1912 Harvard Crimson football
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National champion
(Billingsley, Helms, Houlgate, Davis)
Co-national champion (NCF)
ConferenceIndependent
1912 record9–0
Head coach
  • Percy Haughton (5th season)
CaptainPercy Langdon Wendell
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
Seasons
← 1911
1913 →
1912 Eastern college football independents records
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 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard   –   9 – 0 – 0
Penn State   –   8 – 0 – 0
Carlisle   –   12 – 1 – 1
Princeton   –   7 – 1 – 1
Swarthmore   –   7 – 1 – 1
Yale   –   7 – 1 – 1
Lehigh   –   9 – 2 – 0
Dartmouth   –   7 – 2 – 0
Wesleyan   –   7 – 2 – 0
Colgate   –   5 – 2 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   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
Holy Cross   –   4 – 3 – 1
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
Vermont   –   3 – 5 – 0
Pittsburgh   –   3 – 6 – 0
Boston College   –   2 – 4 – 1
Cornell   –   3 – 7 – 0
NYU   –   2 – 6 – 0

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]

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResult
September 28Maine
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 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 Yale
W 20–0

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