1907 Harvard Crimson football team

1907 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–3
Head coach
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
1907 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale   –   9 – 0 – 1
Dartmouth   –   8 – 0 – 1
Penn   –   11 – 1 – 0
Carlisle   –   10 – 1 – 0
Temple   –   4 – 0 – 2
Fordham   –   6 – 1 – 1
Cornell   –   8 – 2 – 0
Western U. of Penn.   –   8 – 2 – 0
Princeton   –   7 – 2 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   7 – 2 – 0
Lafayette   –   7 – 2 – 1
Lehigh   –   7 – 2 – 1
Swarthmore   –   6 – 2 – 0
Army   –   6 – 2 – 1
NYU   –   5 – 2 – 0
Vermont   –   4 – 1 – 2
  –   7 – 3 – 0
Brown   –   7 – 3 – 0
Penn State   –   6 – 4 – 0
Syracuse   –   5 – 3 – 1
Drexel   –   3 – 2 – 2
Colgate   –   4 – 4 – 1
Geneva   –   4 – 5 – 2
Dickinson   –   3 – 4 – 2
Amherst   –   3 – 4 – 1
Tufts   –   3 – 4 – 1
Frankin & Marshall   –   4 – 6 – 0
Rutgers   –   3 – 5 – 1
Springfield Training School   –   2 – 4 – 2
Bucknell   –   4 – 7 – 0
New Hampshire   –   1 – 5 – 2
Villanova   –   1 – 5 – 1
Holy Cross   –   1 – 7 – 2
Wesleyan   –   1 – 7 – 1
Carnegie Tech   –   1 – 8 – 0

The 1907 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1907 college football season. The Crimson finished with a 7–3 record under first-year head coach Joshua Crane.[1][2] Walter Camp selected only one Harvard player, halfback Jack Wendell, as a first-team player on his 1907 College Football All-America Team. Caspar Whitney selected two Harvard players as first-team members of his All-America team: Wendell and center Patrick Grant.[3]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28 BowdoinW 5–0
October 2 Maine
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 30–0
October 5 Bates
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 33–4
October 12 Williams
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 18–0
October 19at NavyW 6–0
October 263:00 p.m. Springfield Training School
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 9–512,000[4][5][6]
November 2 Brown
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 6–5
November 9 Carlisle
  • Harvard Stadium,
  • Boston, MA
L 15–23
November 16 Dartmouth
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
L 0–22
November 23 Yale
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
L 0–1240,000[7]

References

  1. ^ "1907 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. ^ "Casper Whitney Shuns the West: Eleven Eastern Players Picked for All-American Eleven". Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. December 26, 1907.
  4. ^ "Harvard Ought To Win Easily". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 26, 1907. p. 4. Retrieved March 28, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  5. ^ "Day Of Surprises On The Gridiron". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 27, 1907. p. 1. Retrieved March 28, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  6. ^ "Day Of Surprises On The Gridiron (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 27, 1907. p. 12. Retrieved March 28, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  7. ^ "Yale's Greatest Football Season Closes with a Victory Over Harvard at Cambridge Yesterday: Yale Vanquishes Harvard, 12 to 0". The New York Times. November 24, 1907. pp. 29, 30 – via Newspapers.com.