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1913 Harvard Crimson football
National champion (Helms, Houlgate, NCF)
Co-national champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–0
Head coach
CaptainRobert Treat Paine Storer
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
Seasons
← 1912
1914 →
1913 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard     9 0 0
Carlisle     10 1 1
Washington & Jefferson     10 0 1
Army     8 1 0
Dartmouth     7 1 0
Tufts     7 1 0
Colgate     6 1 1
Franklin & Marshall     6 2 0
Pittsburgh     6 2 1
Princeton     5 2 1
Yale     5 2 3
Rutgers     6 3 0
Penn     6 3 1
Villanova     4 2 1
Lehigh     5 3 0
Bucknell     6 4 0
Cornell     5 4 1
Boston College     4 3 1
Syracuse     6 4 0
Fordham     3 3 2
Geneva     4 4 0
Lafayette     4 5 1
Brown     4 5 0
Duquesne     3 5 1
Carnegie Tech     2 4 1
Holy Cross     3 6 0
Temple     1 3 2
Penn State     2 6 0
Rhode Island State     2 6 0
Vermont     1 5 0
NYU     0 8 0

The 1913 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1913 college football season. The team finished with a 9–0 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and National Championship Foundation, and as a co-national champion with Chicago by Parke H. Davis.[1] They outscored their opponents 225 to 21.[2]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
September 27MaineW 34–0
October 4Bates
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 14–0
October 11Williams
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 23–3
October 18Holy Cross
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 47–7
October 25Penn State
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 29–0
November 1Cornell
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 23–6
November 8at PrincetonW 3–0
November 15Brown
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 37–0
November 22at Yale
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 15–5

[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 "1913 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.