1891 Harvard Crimson football team

1891 Harvard Crimson football
Conference Independent
1891 record 13–1
Head coach George A. Stewart &
George C. Adams (2nd season)
Captain Bernard Trafford
1891 college football records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Yale   –    13 –0 –0
Harvard   –    13 –1 –0
Princeton   –    12 –1 –0
Trinity   –    3 –0 –0
Wake Forest   –    1 –0 –0
Penn   –    11 –2 –0
Illinois   –    5 –1 –0
Colgate   –    4 –1 –0
Army   –    4 –1 –1
Stanford   –    3 –1 –0
Vanderbilt   –    3 –1 –0
Wisconsin   –    3 –1 –1
Navy   –    5 –2 –0
Cornell   –    7 –3 –0
Rutgers   –    8 –6 –0
Geneva   –    4 –2 –0
Washington & Jefferson   –    4 –2 –0
Virginia   –    2 –1 –2
Delaware   –    5 –3 –1
Dartmouth   –    2 –2 –1
Washington   –    1 –1 –0
Doane   –    1 –2 –0
Sewanee   –    1 –2 –0
USC   –    1 –2 –0
Michigan   –    4 –5 –0
Ohio State   –    2 –3 –0
Colorado   –    1 –4 –0
Columbia   –    1 –5 –0
Indiana   –    1 –5 –0
California   –    0 –1 –0
Central   –    0 –1 –0
Furman   –    0 –1 –0
West Virginia   –    0 –1 –0
North Carolina   –    0 –2 –0

The 1891 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1891 college football season. The Crimson finished with a 13–1 record. The team won its first 13 games by a combined score of 588–16, but lost its final game against Yale by a 10–0 score.[1][2]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 3 Dartmouth Cambridge, MAW 16–0 [3]
October 7 Exeter Cambridge, MAW 17–0 [4]
October 10 Amherst Cambridge, MAW 18–0 [5]
October 14 MIT Cambridge, MAW 26–0 [6]
October 17 Williams Cambridge, MAW 26–0 [7]
October 21at Andover Andover, MAW 76–0 [8]
October 24 Amherst Cambridge, MAW 39–0 [9]
October 28 Bowdoin Cambridge, MAW 79–0 [10]
October 31 Springfield YMCA Cambridge, MAW 34–0 [11]
November 3 Wesleyan Cambridge, MAW 124–0 [12]
November 7 Springfeld YMCA Cambridge, MAW 44–4
November 11at Trinity Hartford, CTW 38–0 [13]
November 14 Boston Athletic Association Cambridge, MAW 51–12 [14]
November 21vs. Yale
L 0–10 [15]

References

  1. ↑ "1891 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. ↑ "Harvard Beats Dartmouth". The Sun. October 4, 1891. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ "Harvard Defeats Exeter". The New York Times. October 8, 1891. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "Harvard Defeats Amherst". The New York Times. October 11, 1891. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ "Harvard's Biggest Score This Season". The Sun. October 15, 1891. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "Harvard Is Piqued". The Inter Ocean. October 18, 1891. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ "Harvard Defeats Andover". Chicago Tribune. October 22, 1891. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ "Harvard's Stock Rises". The New York Times. October 25, 1891. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ "Bowdoin Easily Beaten". The New York Times. October 29, 1891. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ↑ "Harvard Defeats Stagg's Team". New York Tribune. November 1, 1891. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ↑ "The Wesleyan Hospital: Its Inmates Matched Against Harvard With Disastrous Results". Chicago Tribune. November 4, 1891. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ↑ "Harvard scores 38 Points Against Trinity". The Sun. November 12, 1891. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ↑ "A Hard Fought Game: Harvard Defeats The Boston Athletic Association Eleven". The New York Times. November 15, 1891. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ↑ "Yale 10, Harvard 0: And The Great Match Is Over". The Evening World. November 21, 1891. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
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