1948 Harvard Crimson football team

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1948 Harvard Crimson football
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ConferenceIndependent
1948 record4–4
Head coach
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
Seasons
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1948 Eastern college football independents records
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 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 6 Army   –   8 – 0 – 1
No. 19 Cornell   –   8 – 1 – 0
Penn State   –   7 – 1 – 1
Buffalo   –   6 – 1 – 1
Villanova   –   8 – 2 – 1
Brown   –   7 – 2 – 0
Boston University   –   6 – 2 – 0
Dartmouth   –   6 – 2 – 0
Boston College   –   5 – 2 – 2
Pittsburgh   –   6 – 3 – 0
Penn   –   5 – 3 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   5 – 3 – 1
Harvard   –   4 – 4 – 0
Princeton   –   4 – 4 – 0
Columbia   –   4 – 5 – 0
Yale   –   4 – 5 – 0
CCNY   –   3 – 4 – 1
Tufts   –   3 – 4 – 1
Colgate   –   3 – 6 – 0
Fordham   –   3 – 6 – 0
NYU   –   3 – 6 – 0
Temple   –   2 – 6 – 1
Duquesne   –   2 – 7 – 0
Carnegie Tech   –   1 – 7 – 0
Hofstra   –   0 – 6 – 2
Bucknell   –   1 – 8 – 0
Syracuse   –   1 – 8 – 0
Drexel   –   0 – 8 – 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1948 Harvard Crimson football team was an American football team that represented Harvard University during the 1948 college football season. In its 1st season under head coach Arthur Valpey, the team compiled a 4–4 record and were outscored by a total of 184 to 130.[1]

Harvard played its home games at Harvard Stadium in the Allston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.

Schedule[]

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2Columbia
W 33–2420,000[2]
October 9at CornellNo. 18
L 6–4025,000[3]
October 16at No. 5 Army
L 7–2026,921[4]
October 23Dartmouth
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
L 7–1446,000[5]
October 30Holy Cross
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 20–1335,000[6]
November 6at Princeton
L 7–4737,000[7]
November 13Brown
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 30–1925,000[8]
November 20Yale
W 20–757,495[9]
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References[]

  1. ^ "1948 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 6, 2020.
  2. ^ Danzig, Allison (October 3, 1948). "Harvard Beats Columbia, 33-24; Lions Are Baffled". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  3. ^ Miller, Vern (October 10, 1948). "Smooth Cornell Eleven Blasts Harvard Hopes, 40-6". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. p. 41 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Young, Dick (October 17, 1948). "Army's Stephenson Rips Harvard, 20-7". Sunday News. New York, N.Y. p. C44 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ McGowen, Roscoe (October 26, 1948). "Dartmouth Halts Harvard by 14 to 7". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  6. ^ Nason, Jerry (October 31, 1948). "Harvard Rebounds to Beat H.C., 20-13". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. p. 36 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ Hand, Jack (November 7, 1948). "Princeton Runs Up Record 47-7 Score in Routing Harvard". The Sunday Times. New Brunswick, N.J. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Harvard Is Victor over Brown, 30-19". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. November 14, 1948. p. S1.
  9. ^ Trimble, Joe (November 21, 1948). "Cantabs End 7-Yr. Eli Drought, 20-7". Sunday News. New York, N.Y. p. 105 – via Newspapers.com.
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