1919 Harvard Crimson football team

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1919 Harvard Crimson football
Harvard Crimson logo.svg
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
  • Bob Fisher (1st season)
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
Seasons
← 1918
1920 →
1919 Eastern college football independents records
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 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard   –   9 – 0 – 1
Penn State   –   7 – 1 – 0
Swarthmore   –   7 – 1 – 0
Dartmouth   –   6 – 1 – 1
Colgate   –   5 – 1 – 1
New Hampshire   –   7 – 2 – 0
Lafayette   –   6 – 2 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   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
Holy Cross   –   5 – 3 – 0
Rutgers   –   5 – 3 – 0
Yale   –   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
Vermont   –   3 – 6 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   2 – 4 – 2
Tufts   –   2 – 5 – 0
Rhode Island State   –   0 – 8 – 1
Drexel   –   0 – 4 – 0

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]

Schedule[]

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 27Bates
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 53–0
October 43:00 p.m.Boston College
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 17–020,000[3]
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 Princeton
  • Palmer Stadium
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
T 10–10
November 15Tufts
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 23–0
November 22Yale
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 10–3
January 1, 1920vs. Oregon
  • Tournament Park
  • Pasadena, CA (Rose Bowl)
W 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. ^ a b "1919 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  3. ^ "Harvard Takes On Boston College". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 4, 1919. p. 7. Retrieved May 30, 2021 – via Newspapers.com open access.
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