1902 Harvard Crimson football team

1902 Harvard Crimson football
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Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Ursinus   –   9 – 0 – 0
Yale   –   11 – 0 – 1
Geneva   –   7 – 0 – 0
Harvard   –   11 – 1 – 0
Princeton   –   8 – 1 – 0
Army   –   6 – 1 – 1
Frankin & Marshall   –   7 – 2 – 0
Dartmouth   –   6 – 2 – 1
Holy Cross   –   6 – 2 – 1
Syracuse   –   6 – 2 – 1
Carlisle   –   8 – 3 – 0
Cornell   –   8 – 3 – 0
Lafayette   –   8 – 3 – 0
Amherst   –   7 – 3 – 0
Penn State   –   7 – 3 – 0
Penn   –   9 – 4 – 0
Lehigh   –   7 – 3 – 1
Vermont   –   5 – 3 – 2
Colgate   –   5 – 3 – 1
NYU   –   5 – 3 – 0
Bucknell   –   6 – 4 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   6 – 4 – 0
Columbia   –   6 – 4 – 1
Springfield Training School   –   3 – 2 – 1
Villanova   –   4 – 3 – 0
Brown   –   5 – 4 – 1
Swarthmore   –   6 – 6 – 0
Western U. of Penn.   –   5 – 6 – 1
New Hampshire   –   2 – 3 – 1
Buffalo   –   3 – 5 – 1
Tufts   –   4 – 6 – 1
Fordham   –   2 – 4 – 1
Wesleyan   –   3 – 6 – 1
Rutgers   –   3 – 7 – 0
Navy   –   2 – 7 – 1
Drexel   –   1 – 4 – 1
Temple   –   1 – 4 – 1
Pittsburgh College   –   1 – 6 – 0
Boston College   –   0 – 8 – 0

The 1902 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1902 college football season. The Crimson finished with an 11–1 record under first-year head coach John Wells Farley. The 1902 team won its first eleven games by a combined 184–23 score. It then closed the season with a 23–0 loss against rival Yale.[1][2] Walter Camp selected two Harvard players as first-team selections to his 1902 College Football All-America Team. They were end Edward Bowditch and fullback Thomas Graydon.[3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 27 Williams
W 11–01,500[4]
October 1 Bowdoin
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 17–6500[5]
October 4 Bates
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 23–04,500–5,000[6]
October 8 Amherst
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 6–04,000[7]
October 11 Maine
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 22–0> 5,000[8]
October 15 Wesleyan
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 35–55,000[9]
October 18at Army
W 14–6 [10]
October 25 Brown
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 6–0>20,000[11]
November 1 Carlisle
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 23–016,000[12]
November 8 Penn
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 11–0> 16,000[13]
November 15 Dartmouth
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 16–610,000[14]
November 22at Yale
L 0–2330,000[15]

References

  1. ^ "1902 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. ^ Michael MacCambridge, Dan Jenkins (2005). ESPN College Football Encyclopedia: The Complete History of College Football from 1869 to the Present. p. 1145.
  4. ^ "Only 11 Points: Harvard Plays Poorly Against Williams Team". The Boston Globe. September 28, 1902. p. 1 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  5. ^ "Small Colleges Score on Harvard and Yale". Boston Post. October 2, 1902. p. 3 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  6. ^ "Harvard Defeats Bates 23 to 0". The Boston Globe. October 5, 1902. p. 10 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  7. ^ "Harvard Barely Beats Amherst". The Boston Globe. October 9, 1902. p. 5 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  8. ^ "With Many Subs Harvard Defeats University of Maine 22 to 0". The Boston Globe. October 12, 1902. p. 9 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  9. ^ "Harvard Varsity Overwhelms Wesleyan in the First Half". The Boston Globe. October 16, 1902. p. 3 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  10. ^ "Harvard Beat Cadets". The Boston Globe. October 19, 1902. p. 5 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  11. ^ "Harvard 6, Brown 0: Providence Gives Players Crimson a Bad Scare". Boston Post. October 26, 1902. p. 1 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  12. ^ "Harvard 23, Carlisle 0: Unusually Spectacular Football on Soldiers Field". The Boston Globe. November 2, 1902. p. 1 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  13. ^ "Penn Puts Up a Plucky Fight: Harvard Wins, But Only by a Score of 11 to 0". The Boston Globe. November 9, 1902. p. 1 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  14. ^ "Dartmouth Scares Harvard". The Boston Globe. November 16, 1902. pp. 1, 5 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  15. ^ "Yale 23, Harvard 0: Crimson Outclassed at Every Stage; 30,000 Saw Game". Boston Post. November 23, 1902. p. 1 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.


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