1926 Harvard Crimson football team

1926 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–5
Head coach
CaptainClement D. Coady
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
Uniform
1926 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 5 Lafayette   –   9 – 0 – 0
No. 10 Brown   –   9 – 0 – 1
NYU   –   8 – 1 – 0
No. 9 Army   –   7 – 1 – 1
Washington & Jefferson   –   7 – 1 – 1
Boston College   –   6 – 0 – 2
No. 10 Penn   –   7 – 1 – 1
Cornell   –   6 – 1 – 1
Princeton   –   5 – 1 – 1
Carnegie Tech   –   7 – 2 – 0
Springfield   –   6 – 2 – 0
Syracuse   –   7 – 2 – 1
Villanova   –   6 – 2 – 1
Colgate   –   5 – 2 – 2
Columbia   –   6 – 3 – 0
Pittsburgh   –   5 – 2 – 2
CCNY   –   5 – 3 – 0
Temple   –   5 – 3 – 0
Penn State   –   5 – 4 – 0
Tufts   –   4 – 4 – 0
Yale   –   4 – 4 – 0
Bucknell   –   4 – 5 – 1
Fordham   –   3 – 4 – 1
  –   3 – 5 – 0
Rutgers   –   3 – 6 – 0
Vermont   –   3 – 6 – 0
Drexel   –   2 – 5 – 0
Boston University   –   2 – 6 – 0
Lehigh   –   1 – 8 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   0 – 8 – 1
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1926 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1926 college football season. In its first season under head coach Arnold Horween, Harvard compiled a 3–5 record and outscored opponents by a total of 140 to 105. Clement D. Coady was the team captain.[1][2] The team played its home games at Harvard Stadium in Boston.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 1Geneva
L 7–16
October 9 Holy Cross
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
L 14–19
October 16William & Mary
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 27–7
October 23 Dartmouth
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 16–12
October 30Tufts
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 69–6
November 6Princeton
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
L 0–1255,000[3]
November 13 Brown
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
L 0–21
November 21at Yale
L 7–12[4]
Program for the 1926 edition of the rivalry game between Harvard and Princeton.

References

  1. ^ "1926 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved April 10, 2020.
  2. ^ "Harvard Football Yearly Records". GoCrimson.com. Harvard University. Archived from the original on August 14, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  3. ^ "Tigers Triumph Over Harvard in First "Big 3" Football Game: Harvard's Hopes Are Higher Than Ability as Princeton Sweeps on to 12-0 Victory". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 7, 1926. pp. C1, C2 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Albert W. Keane (November 21, 1926). "Yale Fights Uphill Battle To Win 12-7". The Hartford Courant. pp. I-1, IV-1 – via Newspapers.com.


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