1904 Harvard Crimson football team

1904 Harvard Crimson football
Conference	Independent
Record	7–2–1
Head coach	Edgar Wrightington (1st season)
Captain	Daniel Hurley
Home stadium	Harvard Stadium

1904 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Penn			–					12	–	0	–	0
Western U. of Penn.			–					10	–	0	–	0
Dartmouth			–					7	–	0	–	1
Yale			–					10	–	1	–	0
Amherst			–					9	–	1	–	0
Colgate			–					8	–	1	–	1
Carlisle			–					10	–	2	–	0
Lafayette			–					8	–	2	–	0
Princeton			–					8	–	2	–	0
Army			–					7	–	2	–	0
Fordham			–					4	–	1	–	1
Harvard			–					7	–	2	–	1
Dickinson			–					8	–	3	–	1
Columbia			–					7	–	3	–	0
Cornell			–					7	–	3	–	0
Villanova			–					4	–	2	–	1
Syracuse			–					6	–	3	–	0
Swarthmore			–					6	–	3	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					5	–	3	–	1
Penn State			–					6	–	4	–	0
Temple			–					3	–	2	–	0
Brown			–					6	–	5	–	0
Bucknell			–					3	–	3	–	0
Springfield Training School			–					4	–	4	–	1
NYU			–					3	–	6	–	0
Holy Cross			–					2	–	5	–	2
Wesleyan			–					3	–	7	–	0
Geneva			–					1	–	4	–	2
Vermont			–					1	–	5	–	2
New Hampshire			–					2	–	5	–	0
Rutgers			–					1	–	6	–	2
Tufts			–					2	–	9	–	1
Lehigh			–					1	–	8	–	0
Frankin & Marshall			–					0	–	10	–	0

Harvard Stadium during Harvard vs. Yale in 1904

The 1904 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1903 college football season. The Crimson finished with a 7–2–1 record under first-year head coach Edgar Wrightington.^[1][2] Walter Camp selected only one Harvard player, halfback Daniel Hurley, as a first-team selection to his 1904 College Football All-America Team.^[3]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 28	Williams	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 24–0
October 5	Bowdoin	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 17–0
October 8	Maine	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 23–0
October 12	Bates	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 11–0
October 15	at Army	The Plain West Point, NY	W 4–0
October 22	Carlisle	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 12–0
October 29	Penn	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	L 0–11	15,000	[4]
November 5	Dartmouth	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	T 0–0
November 12	Holy Cross	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 28–5	7,000	[5]
November 19	at Yale	Yale Field New Haven, CT (rivalry)	L 0–12

References

1. "1904 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. "Camp's Idea Of Football Stars: Yale Coach Puts Two Western Men in His Selection". The Daily Review (Decatur, IL). December 28, 1904.
4. "Pennsy Defeats Harvard 11 to 0: Crimson Loses to the Red and Blue for the First Time in Seven Years". The Boston Sunday Globe. October 30, 1904. pp. 1, 4 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "Harvard 28, Holy Cross 5". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. November 13, 1904. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.