1884 Harvard Crimson football team

1884 Harvard Crimson football
Conference Independent
1884 record 7–4
Head coach No coach
1884 college football records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Princeton   –    9 –0 –1
Yale   –    8 –0 –1
Michigan   –    2 –0 –0
Williams   –    2 –0 –0
Navy   –    1 –0 –0
Wabash   –    1 –0 –0
Penn   –    5 –1 –1
Fordham   –    5 –1 –0
Harvard   –    7 –4 –0
Butler   –    1 –1 –0
Columbia   –    1 –1 –0
Rutgers   –    3 –4 –0
Stevens Tech   –    4 –5 –0
Wesleyan   –    3 –5 –0
Dartmouth   –    1 –2 –1
Massachusetts   –    1 –2 –0
Lafayette   –    2 –5 –0
Tufts   –    0 –1 –1
Albion   –    0 –1 –0
CCNY   –    0 –1 –0
DePauw   –    0 –1 –0
Johns Hopkins   –    0 –2 –0
Amherst   –    0 –3 –0
Lehigh   –    0 –4 –0

The 1884 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1884 college football season. They finished with a 7–4 record.[1][2]

On November 15, Harvard lost to Princeton by a 36–6 score before 3,000 spectators at Jarvis Field in Cambridge.[3]

On November 22, Harvard lost to Yale by a 51–0 score before 2,400 spectators at the new athletic grounds in New Haven. The game was played in two halves of 45 minutes with a 15-minute intermission.[4]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 11 MIT
W 47–5 [5]
October 22 Penn
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, Massachusetts (rivalry)
L 0–4300-400[6]
October 25at MIT
W 42–0200[7]
October 31 Trinity
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, Massachusetts
W 67–0 [8]
November 1at Wesleyan
L 0–16500[9]
November 6 Williams
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, Massachusetts
W 23–0400[10]
November 8at Ottawa
W 20–6 [11]
November 10at Dartmouth Hanover, NHW 29–0 [12]
November 12 Tufts
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, Massachusetts
W 51–0200-300[13]
November 15 Princeton
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, Massachusetts (rivalry)
L 6–362,000-3,000[14][15]
November 22at Yale
L 0–522,400-2,500[16][17]

References

  1. ↑ "1884 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. ↑ "Princeton's Eleven Wins". The New York Times. November 16, 1884. p. 7.
  4. ↑ "The Harvards Badly Beaten". The New York Times. November 23, 1884. p. 2.
  5. ↑ "Tackling and Checking: Harvard Beats Technology at Foot Ball by a Score of 47 Points to 5". The Boston Globe. October 12, 1884. p. 2 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  6. ↑ "Harvard Beaten: The University of Pennsylvania Eleven Inflicts the First Defeat of the Season". The Boston Globe. October 23, 1884. p. 13 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  7. ↑ "Harvard Foot Ball Men Win: The Technology Eleven Easily Defeated on the Union Grounds". The Boston Globe. October 26, 1884. p. 6 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  8. ↑ "Goals and Touchdowns Scored with Ease by Harvard Against Trinity". The Boston Globe. November 1, 1884. p. 13 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  9. ↑ "Football - Wesleyans, 16; Harvards, 0". The Boston Globe. November 2, 1884. p. 6 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  10. ↑ "Practicing With Williams: Harvard Wins at Foot Ball by a Score of 23 to Nothing". The Boston Globe. November 7, 1884. p. 5 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  11. ↑ "Harvard Wins in Canada". The Sun (New York). November 14, 1884. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ↑ "Harvard Blanks Dartmouth at Foot Ball". Boston Daily Globe. November 11, 1884. p. 5 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  13. ↑ "By a Large Majority Harvard Foot Ball Players Beat Tuftonians". The Boston Globe. November 13, 1884. p. 11 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  14. ↑ "The Season of Slogging Well Begun With Princton's Victory at Harvard". The Boston Glove. November 16, 1884. p. 3 – via NewspaperARCHIVE. (attendance reported as 2,000)
  15. ↑ "Princeton's Eleven Wins". The New York Times. November 16, 1884. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com. (attendance reported as 3,000)
  16. ↑ "The Harvards Badly Beaten: The Yale Football Team Whip Them by a Score of 52 to 0". The New York Times. November 23, 1884. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com. (attendance 2,400)
  17. ↑ "Fifty-Two To Nothing Tells The Story of Harvard's Defeat at New Haven". The Boston Globe. November 23, 1884. p. 1 – via NewspaperARCHIVE. (attendance 2,500)
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