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1889 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–2
Head coach
  • None
CaptainArthur Cumnock
Home stadiumJarvis Field
Seasons
← 1888
1890 →
1889 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton   –   10 – 0 – 0
Massachusetts   –   2 – 0 – 0
Yale   –   15 – 1 – 0
Harvard   –   9 – 2 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   5 – 1 – 1
Dickinson   –   4 – 1 – 1
Navy   –   4 – 1 – 1
Tufts   –   3 – 1 – 0
Lehigh   –   8 – 3 – 2
Cornell   –   8 – 4 – 0
Penn   –   7 – 6 – 0
Brown   –   2 – 2 – 0
Penn State   –   2 – 2 – 0
Wesleyan   –   5 – 7 – 1
Bucknell   –   2 – 3 – 1
Lafayette   –   3 – 4 – 2
Columbia   –   2 – 7 – 2
Fordham   –   1 – 3 – 0
Rutgers   –   1 – 4 – 0
NYU   –   0 – 2 – 0

The 1889 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1889 college football season. The Crimson finished with a 9–2 record. The team won its first ten games by a combined score of 404–6, but lost its last two games, against Princeton and Yale, giving up 41 points against Princeton.[1][2]

Three Harvard players were selected as first-team players on the 1889 College Football All-America Team: end and team Arthur Cumnock, halfback James P. Lee, and guard John Cranston.[3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2 Phillips Exeter Cambridge, MAW 28–0 [4]
October 5 Stevens
W 28–4 [5]
October 12 Dartmouth
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA (rivalry)
W 38–0 [6]
October 16 MIT Cambridge, MAW 62–0
October 19 Williams Cambridge, MAW 41–0
October 23 Andover Cambridge, MAW 41–0
October 26 Wesleyan Cambridge, MAW 64–0
November 2 Penn Cambridge, MAW 35–0 [7]
November 9vs. Wesleyan Springfield, MAW 67–2 [8]
November 16 Princeton Cambridge, MA (rivalry)L 15–41 [9]
November 23vs. Yale
L 0–615,000[10]

References

  1. ^ "1889 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ "Harvard Football Yearly Records". GoCrimson.com. Harvard University. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  3. ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  4. ^ "Football at Harvard: First Game of the Season -- Exeter Defeated". The Boston Globe. October 3, 1889. p. 8 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  5. ^ "Touchdown for Stevens: Harvard Fails to Shut Out Light Men". The Boston Globe. October 6, 1889 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  6. ^ "Harvard's Goal: Dartmouth Eleven Easily Defeated -- Score 38 to 0". The Boston Globe. October 13, 1889. p. 2 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  7. ^ "Harvard Beats Pennsylvania". The New York Times. November 3, 1889. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Harvard Defeats Wesleyan". The New York Times. November 10, 1889. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Harvard Went To Pieces". The New York Times. November 17, 1889. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Yale Wins From Harvard". The New York Times. November 24, 1889. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
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