1911 Harvard Crimson football team

1911 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–2–1
Head coach
CaptainBob Fisher
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
1911 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn State   –   8 – 0 – 1
Carlisle   –   11 – 1 – 0
Princeton   –   8 – 0 – 2
Trinity (CT)   –   6 – 0 – 2
Temple   –   6 – 1 – 0
Army   –   6 – 1 – 1
Swarthmore   –   6 – 1 – 1
Dartmouth   –   8 – 2 – 0
Lafayette   –   8 – 2 – 0
Yale   –   7 – 2 – 1
  –   6 – 2 – 1
Cornell   –   7 – 3 – 0
Rhode Island State   –   5 – 2 – 1
Brown   –   7 – 3 – 1
Bucknell   –   6 – 3 – 1
Penn   –   7 – 4 – 0
Pittsburgh   –   4 – 3 – 1
Washington & Jefferson   –   6 – 4 – 0
Syracuse   –   5 – 3 – 2
Dickinson   –   4 – 4 – 0
Lehigh   –   5 – 5 – 1
Rutgers   –   4 – 4 – 1
Dickinson   –   4 – 4 – 0
St. Bonaventure   –   2 – 2 – 0
Carnegie Tech   –   4 – 5 – 0
Holy Cross   –   4 – 5 – 0
Tufts   –   3 – 4 – 0
Vermont   –   3 – 5 – 0
NYU   –   1 – 3 – 3
Colgate   –   3 – 6 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   3 – 6 – 0
New Hampshire   –   1 – 5 – 1
Geneva   –   1 – 6 – 1
Villanova   –   0 – 5 – 1
Boston College   –   0 – 7 – 0

The 1911 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1911 college football season. The Crimson finished with a 6–2–1 record under fourth-year head coach Percy Haughton.[1][2] Walter Camp selected two Harvard players, guard Bob Fisher and halfback Percy Wendell, as first-team members of his 1911 College Football All-America Team.[3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 30 BatesW 15–0
October 7 Holy Cross
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 8–0
October 14 Williams
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 18–0
October 21 Amherst
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 11–0
October 28 Brown
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 20–6
November 4at PrincetonL 6–8[4]
November 11 Carlisle
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
L 15–18
November 18 Dartmouth
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 5–3
November 25 Yale
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
T 0–0

References

  1. ^ "1911 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 Picks All-American Team: Unquestioned Football Authority of Country Selects Best Men". The Lexington Herald. December 10, 1911.
  4. ^ "Princeton Humbles Harvard's Eleven: Orange and Black Wins First Big Game of the Season by the Close Score of 8 to 6". The New York Times. November 5, 1911. p. 31 – via Newspapers.com.