1886 Harvard Crimson football team

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1886
Jarvis Field
Seasons
1886 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale   –   9 – 0 – 1
Princeton   –   7 – 0 – 1
Harvard   –   12 – 2 – 0
Lafayette   –   10 – 2 – 0
Williams   –   5 – 1 – 1
Massachusetts
   –   2 – 1 – 0
Penn   –   9 – 7 – 1
Lehigh
   –   4 – 3 – 1
Dartmouth   –   2 – 2 – 0
Amherst   –   3 – 4 – 0
Rutgers   –   1 – 3 – 0
Wesleyan
   –   2 – 6 – 0
MIT   –   2 – 6 – 1
Vermont   –   0 – 1 – 0
Stevens   –   0 – 7 – 1
Tufts   –   0 – 8 – 0
NYU
   –   0 – 3 – 0
Swarthmore
   –     –  
Trinity (CT)   –     –  

The 1886 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1886 college football season. The team finished with a 12–2 record and outscored opponents 765 to 41 under first-year head coach Frank A. Mason.[1][2] On November 3, 1886, in a game played at Exeter, New Hampshire, the Crimson defeated the team from Phillips Exeter Academy by a score of 158-0, the highest point total ever achieved in a football game to that point.[3] The team's two losses were against rivals Princeton (0–12) and Yale (4–29). Princeton and Yale are recognized by various selectors as the 1886 national champions.

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 6at Tufts Medford, MAW 82–0 [4]
October 9at
Boston, MA
W 54–0 [5]
October 13 Tufts
W 46–0 [6]
October 163:00 p.m. Stevens
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA
W 44–0 [7]
October 20 MIT
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA
W 59–0 [8]
October 23at Andover Andover, MAW 86–0 [9]
October 304:15 p.m. Dartmouth
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA (rivalry)
W 70–075[10]
November 3at Phillips Exeter Exeter, NHW 158–0 [3]
November 6
Wesleyan
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA
W 34–0 [11]
November 8 Harvard alumni
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA
W 38–0
November 132:30 p.m.at Princeton Princeton, NJ (rivalry)L 0–12 [12]
November 17at MIT
  • Union Grounds
  • Boston, MA
W 62–0 [13]
November 202:30 p.m. Yale
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA (rivalry)
L 4–29> 6,000[14][15]
November 25at Penn
W 28–02,000–3,000[16]

Roster

References

  1. ^ "1886 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.
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