1876–77 Harvard Crimson football team

1876 Harvard Crimson football
Conference	Independent
Record	3–1
Head coach	None
Captain	Nathaniel Curtis

1876 college football records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Yale			–					3	–	0	–	0
Rutgers			–					1	–	0	–	0
Harvard			–					3	–	1	–	0
Princeton			–					3	–	2	–	0
Stevens			–					2	–	2	–	0
CCNY			–					1	–	1	–	0
Penn			–					1	–	2	–	0
Columbia			–					1	–	3	–	0
Canada All-Stars			–					0	–	1	–	0
McGill			–					0	–	1	–	0
Northwestern			–					0	–	1	–	0
Philadelphia All-Stars			–					0	–	1	–	0
NYU			–					0	–	2	–	0

The 1876–77 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1876 college football season. They finished with a 3–1 record.^[1] The team captain was Nathaniel Curtis.^[2]

On November 18, 1876, the second Harvard–Yale football rivalry game was played before a crowd of approximately 2,000 people at Hamilton Park in New Haven, Connecticut. Walter Camp played for Yale, which won the game 1–0.

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 28	3:00 p.m.	at Canada All-Stars	Montreal, QC	W 2–0		[3][4]
October 30	10:30 a.m.	at McGill	Montreal, QC	W 1–0		[5]
November 18	3:00 p.m.	at Yale	Hamilton Park New Haven, CT (rivalry)	L 0–1	2,000	[6][7]
April 28, 1877		Princeton	Cambridge, MA (rivalry)	W 1–0	2,500	[8]

References

1. "1876 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 23, 2017.
2. "Harvard Football Yearly Records". GoCrimson.com. Harvard University. Archived from the original on August 14, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
3. "Football". The Gazette. Montreal, Quebec. October 28, 1876. p. 3. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
4. "Foot-Ball Match". The Evening Star. Montreal, Quebec. October 30, 1876. p. 2. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
5. "Football". The Gazette. Montreal, Quebec. October 30, 1876. p. 1. Retrieved March 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
6. "Game Between The Harvard and Yale Clubs At Hamilton Park - Yale Wins". New York Herald. November 19, 1876. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
7. "Foot Ball.—The Yales Defeat Harvard and Princeton Defeats Columbia". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 20, 1876. p. 3. Retrieved March 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
8. "General Notes". New-York Tribune. New York, New York. April 30, 1877. p. 4. Retrieved March 27, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .