1906 Harvard Crimson football team

1906 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record10–1
Head coach
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
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Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton   –   9 – 0 – 1
Yale   –   9 – 0 – 1
Haverford   –   7 – 0 – 2
Harvard   –   10 – 1 – 0
Cornell   –   8 – 1 – 2
Lafayette   –   8 – 1 – 1
Penn State   –   8 – 1 – 1
Washington & Jefferson   –   9 – 2 – 0
Swarthmore   –   7 – 2 – 0
Drexel   –   6 – 2 – 0
Tufts   –   6 – 2 – 0
Penn   –   7 – 2 – 3
Carlisle   –   9 – 3 – 0
Brown   –   6 – 3 – 0
Rutgers   –   5 – 2 – 2
Dartmouth   –   6 – 3 – 1
Syracuse   –   6 – 3 – 0
Colgate   –   4 – 2 – 2
Vermont   –   5 – 4 – 0
Fordham   –   5 – 3 – 0
Western U. of Penn.   –   6 – 4 – 0
Holy Cross   –   4 – 3 – 1
Amherst   –   3 – 3 – 1
Lehigh   –   5 – 5 – 1
Bucknell   –   3 – 4 – 1
Dickinson   –   3 – 4 – 2
Carnegie Tech   –   2 – 3 – 2
Army   –   3 – 5 – 1
Frankin & Marshall   –   3 – 5 – 1
Wesleyan   –   2 – 4 – 1
New Hampshire   –   2 – 5 – 1
Villanova   –   3 – 7 – 0
Springfield Training School   –   1 – 5 – 3
NYU   –   0 – 4 – 0

The 1906 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1906 college football season. The Crimson finished with a 10–1 record under second-year head coach Bill Reid. The team won its first ten games by a combined 167–20 score, but lost its final game against rival Yale by a 6–0 score.[1][2] Walter Camp selected only one Harvard player, guard Francis Burr, as a first-team player on his 1906 College Football All-America Team.[3] Caspar Whitney selected two Harvard players as first-team members of his All-America team: Burr and tackle Charles Osborne.[4]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 22 Williams
W 7–0
September 26 Bowdoin
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 10–0
September 29 Maine
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 17–0
October 6 Bates
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 27–6
October 13 Massachusetts
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 21–0
October 203:00 p.m. Springfield Training School
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 44–05,000[5][6]
October 27at Army
W 5–0
November 3 Brown
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 9–5
November 10 Carlisle
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 5–0
November 17 Dartmouth
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 22–9
November 24at Yale
L 0–6[7]

References

  1. ^ "1906 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 Football Foundation". Archived from the original on March 30, 2009.
  4. ^ Caspar Whitney (1907). "The View-Point". Outing. p. 537.
  5. ^ "Will Put Good Eleven On Field". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 20, 1906. p. 11. Retrieved March 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  6. ^ "In A Very Fast And Open Game". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 21, 1906. p. 10. Retrieved March 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  7. ^ "Yale Triumphs, 6-0, By Brainy Football". The Boston Globe. November 25, 1906. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.


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