1904 Harvard Crimson football team

1904 Harvard Crimson football
1904 Harvard Crimson football
Conference	Independent
Record	7–2–1
Head coach	Edgar Wrightington (1st season);
Captain	Daniel Hurley
Home stadium	Harvard Stadium
	Seasons ← 1903 1905 →

1904 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Penn		–		12	–	0	–	0
Western U. of Penn.		–		10	–	0	–	0
Dartmouth		–		7	–	0	–	1
Yale		–		10	–	1	–	0
Amherst		–		9	–	1	–	0
Colgate		–		8	–	1	–	1
Carlisle		–		10	–	2	–	0
Lafayette		–		8	–	2	–	0
Princeton		–		8	–	2	–	0
Army		–		7	–	2	–	0
Fordham		–		4	–	1	–	1
Harvard		–		7	–	2	–	1
Dickinson		–		8	–	3	–	1
Columbia		–		7	–	3	–	0
Cornell		–		7	–	3	–	0
Villanova		–		4	–	2	–	1
Syracuse		–		6	–	3	–	0
Swarthmore		–		6	–	3	–	0
Washington & Jefferson		–		5	–	3	–	1
Penn State		–		6	–	4	–	0
Temple		–		3	–	2	–	0
Brown		–		6	–	5	–	0
Bucknell		–		3	–	3	–	0
Springfield Training School		–		4	–	4	–	1
NYU		–		3	–	6	–	0
Holy Cross		–		2	–	5	–	2
Wesleyan		–		3	–	7	–	0
Geneva		–		1	–	4	–	2
Vermont		–		1	–	5	–	2
New Hampshire		–		2	–	5	–	0
Rutgers		–		1	–	6	–	2
Tufts		–		2	–	9	–	1
Lehigh		–		1	–	8	–	0
Frankin & Marshall		–		0	–	10	–	0

The 1904 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1903 college football season. The Crimson finished with a 7–2–1 record under first-year head coach Edgar Wrightington.^[1]^[2] Walter Camp selected only one Harvard player, halfback Daniel Hurley, as a first-team selection to his 1904 College Football All-America Team.^[3]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 28	Williams	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 24–0
October 5	Bowdoin	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 17–0
October 8	Maine	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 23–0
October 12	Bates	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 11–0
October 15	at Army	The Plain West Point, NY	W 4–0
October 22	Carlisle	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 12–0
October 29	Penn	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	L 0–11	15,000	^[4]
November 5	Dartmouth	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	T 0–0
November 12	Holy Cross	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 28–5	7,000	^[5]
November 19	at Yale	Yale Field New Haven, CT (rivalry)	L 0–12

^ "1904 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.
^ "Camp's Idea Of Football Stars: Yale Coach Puts Two Western Men in His Selection". The Daily Review (Decatur, IL). December 28, 1904.
^ "Pennsy Defeats Harvard 11 to 0: Crimson Loses to the Red and Blue for the First Time in Seven Years". The Boston Sunday Globe. October 30, 1904. pp. 1, 4 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Harvard 28, Holy Cross 5". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. November 13, 1904. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.