1915 Harvard Crimson football team

1915 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–1
Head coach
CaptainEddie Mahan
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
1915 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Cornell   –   9 – 0 – 0
Pittsburgh   –   8 – 0 – 0
Columbia   –   5 – 0 – 0
  –   8 – 1 – 0
Carnegie Tech   –   7 – 1 – 0
Rutgers   –   7 – 1 – 0
Villanova   –   6 – 1 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   8 – 1 – 1
Colgate   –   5 – 1 – 0
Syracuse   –   9 – 1 – 2
Dartmouth   –   7 – 1 – 1
Tufts   –   5 – 1 – 2
Penn State   –   7 – 2 – 0
Lafayette   –   8 – 3 – 0
Princeton   –   6 – 2 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   6 – 2 – 0
Temple   –   3 – 1 – 1
Geneva   –   6 – 3 – 0
Wesleyan   –   6 – 3 – 0
Allegheny   –   5 – 3 – 0
Swarthmore   –   5 – 3 – 0
Army   –   5 – 3 – 1
Lehigh   –   6 – 4 – 0
Holy Cross   –   3 – 2 – 2
Brown   –   5 – 4 – 1
Fordham   –   4 – 4 – 0
NYU   –   4 – 4 – 1
Middlebury   –   3 – 4 – 2
Muhlenberg   –   4 – 5 – 0
Yale   –   4 – 5 – 0
Boston College   –   3 – 4 – 0
Penn   –   3 – 5 – 2
WPI   –   3 – 5 – 1
Buffalo   –   3 – 5 – 0
Carlisle   –   3 – 6 – 2
Rhode Island State   –   3 – 5 – 0
New Hampshire   –   3 – 6 – 1
Gettysburg   –   3 – 6 – 0
Rochester   –   3 – 6 – 0
Bucknell   –   2 – 6 – 3
Vermont   –   1 – 4 – 2
Williams   –   1 – 7 – 0

The 1915 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1915 college football season. The Crimson finished with an 8–1 record under eighth-year head coach Percy Haughton. The sole loss was a 10–0 defeat against Cornell.[1][2] Walter Camp selected three Harvard players (tackle Joseph Gilman, halfback Richard King and fullback Eddie Mahan) as first-team members of his 1915 College Football All-America Team.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 25 ColbyW 39–6
October 2 Massachusetts
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 7–0
October 9 Carlisle
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 29–7
October 16 Virginia
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 9–0[3]
October 23 Cornell
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
L 0–1025,000[4]
October 30 Penn State
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 13–022,000
November 6at PrincetonW 10–6
November 13 Brown
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 16–7
November 20 Yale
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 41–049,000[5]

References

  1. ^ "1915 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. ^ "Harvard full back beats U. of VA., 9–0". The New York Times. October 17, 1915. Retrieved July 2, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Melville E. Webb Jr. (October 24, 1915). "Ithaca Wins After 25 Years of Trying". The Boston Globe. pp. 1, 17 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Harvard Rips Yale to Bits; Wins 41 to 0". New York Tribune. November 21, 1915. pp. 1, 11 – via Newspapers.com.