1919 Harvard Crimson football team

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1919 Harvard Crimson football
National champion (Helms, Houlgate)
Co-national champion (CFRA, NCF, Davis)
Rose Bowl champion
Rose Bowl, W 7–6 vs. Oregon
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–0–1
Head coach
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
Seasons
← 1918
1920 →
1919 Eastern college football independents records
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
Buffalo     0 5 1
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

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendance
September 27BatesW 53–0
October 4Boston College
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 17–020,000
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 PrincetonT 10–10
November 15Tufts
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 23–0
November 22Yale
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 10–3
January 1, 1920vs. OregonW 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.