1895 Harvard Crimson football team

1895 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–2–1
Head coach
Home stadiumSoldiers' Field
1895 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn   –   14 – 0 – 0
Yale   –   13 – 0 – 2
Princeton   –   10 – 1 – 1
Washington & Jefferson   –   6 – 1 – 1
  –   8 – 2 – 1
Lafayette   –   6 – 2 – 0
Syracuse   –   6 – 2 – 2
Army   –   5 – 2 – 0
Bucknell   –   5 – 2 – 0
Colgate   –   4 – 2 – 0
Swarthmore   –   7 – 4 – 1
Tufts   –   8 – 5 – 0
Villanova   –   4 – 2 – 0
Wesleyan   –   6 – 3 – 0
Amherst   –   6 – 5 – 0
Brown   –   7 – 6 – 1
Carlisle   –   4 – 4 – 0
Drexel   –   3 – 3 – 1
Rhode Island   –   1 – 1 – 0
Penn State   –   2 – 2 – 3
Cornell   –   3 – 4 – 1
Rutgers   –   3 – 4 – 0
New Hampshire   –   2 – 3 – 1
Frankin & Marshall   –   3 – 5 – 1
Boston College   –   2 – 4 – 2
Lehigh   –   3 – 6 – 0
CCNY   –   2 – 5 – 1
Buffalo   –   1 – 4 – 2
Temple   –   1 – 4 – 1
MIT   –   1 – 4 – 0
Trinity (CT)   –   1 – 4 – 0
Massachusetts   –   1 – 5 – 0
Western Univ. Penn.   –   1 – 6 – 0
Geneva   –   0 – 5 – 0
NYU   –   0 – 5 – 0

The 1895 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1895 college football season. The Crimson finished with an 8–2–1 record. First-year head coach Robert Emmons led the team from October 21 to November 3.[1] Following the team's 12–4 loss to Princeton, assistant Lorin F. Deland took over as head coach.[2] He led the team to a 1–1–1 record in their last three games, including a 17–14 loss to Penn, the closest the undefeated Quakers came to defeat that year.[3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2 Dartmouth
W 4–03,000[4]
October 5 Amherst
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 24–0
October 9 Phillips Exeter
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 42–0
October 12at Army
W 4–0
October 16 Williams
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 32–0
October 19 Brown
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 26–65,000[5][6]
October 26 Cornell
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 25–0
November 2at Princeton
L 4–12
November 9 Michigan
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 4–06,000
November 16 Boston Athletic Association
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
T 0–0
November 23 Penn
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
L 14–17[7]

References

  1. ^ "Emmons to coach". The Boston Daily Globe. October 22, 1895.
  2. ^ "Bracing Harvard's Team". The New York Times. November 12, 1895.
  3. ^ Featherweight (April 5, 1896). "Coach Deland Resigns". The Boston Daily Globe.
  4. ^ "Harvard's Close Call". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. September 29, 1895. p. 1. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  5. ^ "Brown Did It Again". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 20, 1895. p. 1. Retrieved March 9, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  6. ^ "Brown Did It (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 20, 1895. p. 2. Retrieved March 9, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  7. ^ "U. of P. 17, Harvard 14: Fought to the Last; Although Surely Beaten, Harvard Played Pluckily On". The Boston Globe. November 24, 1895. pp. 1, 2 – via Newspapers.com.
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