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1906 Harvard Crimson football team

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1906 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record10–1
Head coach
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
Seasons
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1907 →
1906 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton     9 0 1
Yale     9 0 1
Haverford     7 0 2
Harvard     10 1 0
Cornell     8 1 2
Lafayette     8 1 1
Penn State     8 1 1
Washington & Jefferson     9 2 0
Swarthmore     7 2 0
Drexel     6 2 0
Tufts     6 2 0
Penn     7 2 3
Carlisle     9 3 0
Brown     6 3 0
Rutgers     5 2 2
Dartmouth     6 3 1
Syracuse     6 3 0
Colgate     4 2 2
Vermont     5 4 0
Fordham     5 3 0
Western U. of Penn.     6 4 0
Holy Cross     4 3 1
Amherst     3 3 1
Lehigh     5 5 1
Bucknell     3 4 1
Dickinson     3 4 2
Carnegie Tech     2 3 2
Army     3 5 1
Frankin & Marshall     3 5 1
Wesleyan     2 4 1
New Hampshire     2 5 1
Villanova     3 7 0
Springfield Training School     1 5 3
NYU     0 4 0

The 1906 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1906 college football season. The Crimson finished with a 10–1 record under second-year head coach Bill Reid. The team won its first ten games by a combined 167–20 score, but lost its final game against rival Yale by a 6–0 score.[1][2] Walter Camp selected only one Harvard player, guard Francis Burr, as a first-team player on his 1906 College Football All-America Team.[3] Caspar Whitney selected two Harvard players as first-team members of his All-America team: Burr and tackle Charles Osborne.[4]

Schedule

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DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 22 WilliamsW 7–0
September 26 Bowdoin
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 10–0
September 29 Maine
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 17–0
October 6 Bates
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 27–6
October 13 Massachusetts
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 21–0
October 203:00 p.m. Springfield Training School
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 44–05,000[5][6]
October 27at ArmyW 5–0
November 3 Brown
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 9–5
November 10 Carlisle
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 5–0
November 17 Dartmouth
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 22–9
November 24at Yale L 0–6[7]

References

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  1. ^ "1906 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. ^ "Walter Camp Football Foundation". Archived from the original on March 30, 2009.
  4. ^ Caspar Whitney (1907). "The View-Point". Outing. p. 537.
  5. ^ "Will Put Good Eleven On Field". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 20, 1906. p. 11. Retrieved March 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  6. ^ "In A Very Fast And Open Game". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 21, 1906. p. 10. Retrieved March 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  7. ^ "Yale Triumphs, 6-0, By Brainy Football". The Boston Globe. November 25, 1906. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.