1906 Harvard Crimson football team

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]

1906 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
1906 record10–1
Head coachBill Reid (2nd season)
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
(Capacity: 42,000)
1906 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Princeton      9 0 1
Yale      9 0 1
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
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
Fordham      5 3 0
Western U. of Penn.      6 4 0
Drexel      3 2 1
Holy Cross      4 3 1
Amherst      3 3 1
Lehigh      5 5 1
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
NYU      0 4 0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
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 20 Springfield
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 44–0
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

References

  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. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  3. "Walter Camp Football Foundation". Archived from the original on 2009-03-30.
  4. Caspar Whitney. "The View-Point". Outing. p. 537.
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