1896 Harvard Crimson football team

The 1896 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1896 college football season. The Crimson finished with a 7–4 record under first-year head coach Bert Waters. The team won its first six games, but lost four of the final five games, including losses to rivals Princeton and Penn.[1][2]

1896 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–4
Head coach
CaptainEdgar Wrightington
Home stadiumSoldiers' Field
Seasons
← 1895
1897 →
1896 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Fordham     1 0 0
Lafayette     11 0 1
Princeton     10 0 1
Washington & Jefferson     8 0 1
Penn     14 1 0
Yale     13 1 0
Pittsburgh College     11 2 0
Buffalo     9 1 2
Villanova     10 4 0
Bucknell     5 2 1
Harvard     7 4 0
Boston College     5 3 0
Storrs     5 3 0
Cornell     5 3 1
Syracuse     5 3 2
Temple     3 2 0
Army     3 2 1
Rutgers     6 6 0
Carlisle     5 5 0
Holy Cross     2 2 2
Brown     4 5 1
Wesleyan     4 5 1
Frankin & Marshall     3 4 2
Geneva     3 4 0
Penn State     3 4 0
Colgate     3 4 1
Amherst     3 6 1
Western Univ. Penn.     3 6 0
Lehigh     2 5 0
Tufts     2 6 1
Swarthmore     2 6 0
New Hampshire     1 4 0
Drexel     1 5 0
Massachusetts     0 4 0
Rhode Island     0 4 0

Schedule

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DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 26 WilliamsW 6–0
October 3 Trinity (CT)
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 34–0
October 7 Newton A.C.
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 18–0
October 10 Wesleyan
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 28–0
October 173:00 p.m. Brown
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 12–04,000[3][4][5]
October 24at Cornell
W 13–4
October 28vs. Harvard alumni L 5–8
October 31 Carlisle
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 4–0
November 7 Princeton
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
L 0–1220,000[6]
November 14 Boston Athletic Association
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
L 6–8
November 21at PennL 6–8

References

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  1. ^ "1896 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. ^ "Plays Brown". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 17, 1896. p. 5. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com  .
  4. ^ "Lost Her Chance". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 18, 1896. p. 2. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com  .
  5. ^ "Brown Loses The Game". The New York Times. New York, New York. October 18, 1896. p. 6. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com  .
  6. ^ "Princeton, 12; Harvard, 0". Boston Post. November 8, 1896. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.