1914 Harvard Crimson football team

The 1914 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1914 college football season. The Crimson finished with an undefeated 7–0–2 record under seventh-year head coach Percy Haughton. Harvard outscored its opponents by a combined score of 187–28, but tied Penn State and Brown.[1][2]

1914 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–0–2
Head coach
CaptainCharles Brickley
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
Seasons
← 1913
1915 →
1914 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Army     9 0 0
Harvard     7 0 2
Washington & Jefferson     10 1 0
Dartmouth     8 1 0
Lehigh     8 1 0
Pittsburgh     8 1 0
Cornell     8 2 0
Yale     7 2 0
Franklin & Marshall     6 2 1
Colgate     5 2 1
Princeton     5 2 1
Brown     5 2 2
Fordham     6 3 1
Geneva     5 3 0
Tufts     5 3 0
Penn State     5 3 1
Rutgers     5 3 1
Lafayette     5 3 2
Syracuse     5 3 2
Boston College     5 4 0
NYU     5 4 0
Villanova     4 3 1
Bucknell     4 4 1
Carnegie Tech     4 4 0
Penn     4 4 1
Temple     3 3 0
Rhode Island State     2 3 3
Carlisle     5 10 1
Holy Cross     2 5 1
Vermont     2 6 1
Duquesne     1 5 0

Walter Camp selected four Harvard players (end Huntington "Tack" Hardwick, tackle Walter Trumbull, guard Stan Pennock, and halfback Eddie Mahan) as first-team members of his All-American Team.[3]

The Crimson played in the inaugural game at the Yale Bowl on November 21; Harvard defeated rival Yale, 36–0, with over 68,000 in attendance.[4][5][6]

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 26 BatesW 44–0
October 3 Springfield YMCA
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 44–0
October 10 Washington & Jefferson
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 10–9[7]
October 17 Tufts
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 13–6
October 24 Penn State
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
T 13–1322,000
October 31 Michigan
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 7–023,213
November 7 Princeton
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 20–0
November 14 Brown
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
T 0–0
November 21at Yale W 36–071,000[8]

References

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  1. ^ "1914 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. ^ "Walter Camp's Three All-American Elevens". The Syracuse Herald. December 13, 1914.
  4. ^ Amore, Dom (November 13, 2014). "Yale Bowl starts big, and 100 years later, it remains special". Hartford Courant. (Connecticut). Retrieved December 1, 2017.
  5. ^ "Yale victim of bad breaks or score might have been closer". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). November 22, 1914. p. 1, part 3.
  6. ^ "Greatest football crowd ever, sees big match". The Day. (New London, Connecticut). November 21, 1914. p. 13.
  7. ^ "Harvard Wins By A Point, 10-9". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 11, 1914. p. 16. Retrieved September 18, 2021 – via Newspapers.com  .
  8. ^ "Harvard Buries Yale In New Bowl: Pile Up 36 Points and Shut Out Yale". The Hartford Courant. November 22, 1914. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.(reporting crowd size of 71,000)