1944 Harvard Crimson football team

1944 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–1
Head coach
CaptainWalter H. Trumbull Jr.
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
Seasons
← 1943
1945 →
1944 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 1 Army   –   9 – 0 – 0
Yale   –   7 – 0 – 1
Harvard   –   5 – 1 – 0
Bucknell   –   7 – 2 – 1
Penn State   –   6 – 3 – 0
Penn   –   5 – 3 – 0
Boston College   –   4 – 3 – 0
Cornell   –   5 – 4 – 0
Villanova   –   4 – 4 – 0
Drexel   –   2 – 2 – 0
Pittsburgh   –   4 – 5 – 0
Brown   –   3 – 4 – 1
Temple   –   2 – 4 – 2
Syracuse   –   2 – 4 – 1
Princeton   –   1 – 2 – 0
Dartmouth   –   2 – 5 – 1
Colgate   –   2 – 5 – 0
NYU   –   2 – 5 – 0
Columbia   –   2 – 6 – 0
Tufts   –   1 – 4 – 1
Franklin & Marshall   –   1 – 8 – 0
CCNY   –   0 – 7 – 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1944 Harvard Crimson football team was an American football team that represented Harvard University during the 1944 college football season. In its second and final season under head coach Henry Lamar, the team compiled a 5–1 record and outscored its opponents 100 to 37. Walter H. Trumbull Jr. was the team captain.[1]

For 1944, as in 1943, rather than scheduling its usual mix of Ivy League opponents and national college football powerhouses, Harvard played a shorter schedule of smaller New England colleges and military teams. Its football record book describes these two World War II-era seasons as "informal".[1]

Harvard played its home games at Harvard Stadium in the Allston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 16 Tufts
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 19–12 12,000 [2]
September 23 Bates
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 43–6 8,000 [3]
September 30 Worcester Tech
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 13–0 8,500 [4]
October 7 Boston College
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 13–0 43,000 [5]
November 11 Melville PT Boat Training Center
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
L 0–13 7,500 [6]
November 18 at Tufts
W 12–6 5,000 [7]

References

  1. ^ a b "Football Record Book: Year-by-Year Results" (PDF). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  2. ^ "Harvard's Eleven Downs Tufts, 19-12". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. Associated Press. September 17, 1944. p. S1.
  3. ^ "Harvard Crushes Bates on Gridiron". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. Associated Press. September 24, 1944. p. S3.
  4. ^ "Harvard Turns Back Worcester Tech, 13-0". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. Associated Press. October 1, 1944. p. S3.
  5. ^ "43,000 See Harvard Down Eagles, 13-0". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. Associated Press. October 8, 1944. p. S3.
  6. ^ Kane, Dan (November 12, 1944). "Navy P.T. Shells Harvard, 13-0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. p. 26 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Harvard Victor over Tufts". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. United Press International. November 19, 1944. p. S3.