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1915 Harvard Crimson football team

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1915 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–1
Head coach
CaptainEddie Mahan
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
Seasons
← 1914
1916 →
1915 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Cornell     9 0 0
Pittsburgh     8 0 0
Columbia     5 0 0
Harvard     8 1 0
Carnegie Tech     7 1 0
Rutgers     7 1 0
Villanova     6 1 0
Washington & Jefferson     8 1 1
Colgate     5 1 0
Syracuse     9 1 2
Dartmouth     7 1 1
Tufts     5 1 2
Penn State     7 2 0
Lafayette     8 3 0
Princeton     6 2 0
Franklin & Marshall     6 2 0
Temple     3 1 1
Geneva     6 3 0
Wesleyan     6 3 0
Allegheny     5 3 0
Swarthmore     5 3 0
Army     5 3 1
Lehigh     6 4 0
Holy Cross     3 2 2
Brown     5 4 1
Fordham     4 4 0
NYU     4 4 1
Middlebury     3 4 2
Muhlenberg     4 5 0
Yale     4 5 0
Boston College     3 4 0
Penn     3 5 2
WPI     3 5 1
Buffalo     3 5 0
Carlisle     3 6 2
Rhode Island State     3 5 0
New Hampshire     3 6 1
Gettysburg     3 6 0
Rochester     3 6 0
Bucknell     2 6 3
Vermont     1 4 2
Williams     1 7 0

The 1915 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1915 college football season. The Crimson finished with an 8–1 record under eighth-year head coach Percy Haughton. The sole loss was a 10–0 defeat against Cornell.[1][2] Walter Camp selected three Harvard players (tackle Joseph Gilman, halfback Richard King and fullback Eddie Mahan) as first-team members of his 1915 College Football All-America Team.

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 25 ColbyW 39–6
October 2 Massachusetts
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 7–0
October 9 Carlisle
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 29–7
October 16 Virginia
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 9–0[3]
October 23 Cornell
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
L 0–1025,000[4]
October 30 Penn State
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 13–022,000
November 6at PrincetonW 10–6
November 13 Brown
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 16–7
November 20 Yale
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 41–049,000[5]

References

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  1. ^ "1915 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ "Harvard Football Yearly Records". GoCrimson.com. Harvard University. Archived from the original on August 14, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  3. ^ "Harvard full back beats U. of VA., 9–0". The New York Times. October 17, 1915. Retrieved July 2, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Melville E. Webb Jr. (October 24, 1915). "Ithaca Wins After 25 Years of Trying". The Boston Globe. pp. 1, 17 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Harvard Rips Yale to Bits; Wins 41 to 0". New York Tribune. November 21, 1915. pp. 1, 11 – via Newspapers.com.