1896 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–4
Head coach
CaptainEdgar Wrightington
Home stadiumSoldiers' Field
1896 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW 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

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]

Schedule

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

  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 Open access icon.
  4. "Lost Her Chance". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 18, 1896. p. 2. Retrieved March 10, 2022 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  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 Open access icon.
  6. "Princeton, 12; Harvard, 0". Boston Post. November 8, 1896. p. 1 via Newspapers.com.


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