1912 Harvard Crimson football team

The 1912 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1912 college football season. The team finished with a 9–0 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and Parke H. Davis, and as a co-national champion by the National Championship Foundation.[1] They outscored their opponents 176 to 22.[2]

1912 Harvard Crimson football
National champion
(Billingsley, Helms, Houlgate, Davis)
Co-national champion (NCF)
ConferenceIndependent
1912 record9–0
Head coachPercy Haughton (5th season)
CaptainPercy Langdon Wendell
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
1912 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Harvard      9 0 0
Penn State      8 0 0
Carlisle      12 1 1
Princeton      7 1 1
Yale      7 1 1
Lehigh      9 2 0
Dartmouth      7 2 0
Wesleyan      7 2 0
Colgate      5 2 0
Wash. & Jeff.      8 3 1
Rhode Island State      6 3 0
Temple      3 2 0
Penn      7 4 0
Army      5 3 0
Brown      6 4 0
Franklin & Marshall      6 4 0
Rutgers      5 4 0
Tufts      5 4 0
Fordham      4 4 0
Villanova      3 3 0
Morris Harvey      2 2 0
Lafayette      4 5 1
Syracuse      4 5 0
Carnegie Tech      3 4 1
Geneva      3 4 0
Pittsburgh      3 6 0
Boston College      2 4 1
Cornell      3 7 0
NYU      2 6 0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
September 28MaineW 7–0
October 5Holy Cross
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 19–0
October 12Williams
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 26–3
October 19Amherst
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 46–0
October 26Brown
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 30–10
November 2Princeton
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 16–6
November 9Vanderbilt
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 9–3
November 16Dartmouth
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 3–0
November 23at YaleW 20–0

[2]

References

  1. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  2. "1912 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
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