1889 Harvard Crimson football team
American college football season
The 1889 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1889 college football season . The Crimson finished with a 9–2 record. The team won its first ten games by a combined score of 404–6, but lost its last two games, against Princeton and Yale , giving up 41 points against Princeton.[1] [2]
Three Harvard players were selected as first-team players on the 1889 College Football All-America Team : end and team Arthur Cumnock , halfback James P. Lee , and guard John Cranston .[3]
Schedule
Date Time Opponent Site Result Attendance Source October 2 Phillips Exeter W 28–0 [4]
October 5 Stevens Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA W 28–4 [5]
October 12 Dartmouth Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA (rivalry ) W 38–0 [6]
October 16 4:00 p.m. MIT Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA W 62–0 [7] [8]
October 19 Williams Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA W 41–0 [9]
October 23 Phillips Academy Cambridge, MA W 41–0 [10]
October 26 3:15 p.m. Wesleyan Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA W 64–0 [11]
November 2 Penn Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA W 35–02,000 [12] [13]
November 9 vs. Wesleyan W 67–2 [14]
November 16 2:45 p.m. Princeton Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA (rivalry ) L 15–4110,000 [15] [16] [17]
November 23 2:00 p.m. vs. Yale Hampden Park Springfield, MA (rivalry ) L 0–615,000 [18] [19]
References
^ "1889 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results" . SR/College Football . Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017 .
^ "Harvard Football Yearly Records" . GoCrimson.com . Harvard University. Archived from the original on August 14, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2014 .
^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF) . National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017 .
^ "Over Exeter's Goal" . The Boston Daily Globe . Boston, Massachusetts . October 3, 1889. p. 7. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Touchdown For Stevens" . The Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Massachusetts . October 6, 1889. p. 2. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Harvard's Goal" . The Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Massachusetts . October 13, 1889. p. 2. Retrieved March 21, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Harvard's Best Game" . The Boston Daily Globe . Boston, Massachusetts . October 17, 1889. p. 2. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "College Sports" . Boston Evening Transcript . Boston, Massachusetts . October 17, 1889. p. 3. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Punting For Points" . The Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Massachusetts . October 20, 1889. p. 6. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Harvard Had Hard Work" . The Boston Daily Globe . Boston, Massachusetts . October 24, 1889. p. 3. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Crimson Punters Won" . The Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Massachusetts . October 27, 1889. p. 2. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Harvard Beats Pennsylvania" . The New York Times . November 3, 1889. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Foot-ball On Saturday" . Hartford Courant . Hartford, Connecticut . November 4, 1889. p. 1. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Harvard Defeats Wesleyan" . The New York Times . November 10, 1889. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Jersey Sand" . The Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Massachusetts . November 17, 1889. p. 1. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Jersey Sand (continued)" . The Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Massachusetts . November 17, 1889. p. 4. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Harvard Went To Pieces" . The New York Times . November 17, 1889. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Yale Wins From Harvard" . The New York Times . November 24, 1889. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Leather Chasing" . Brooklyn Citizen . Brooklyn, New York . November 24, 1889. p. 3. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
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