1899 Harvard Crimson football team

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1899 Harvard Crimson football
National champion (Helms, Houlgate, and NCF)
ConferenceIndependent
Record10–0–1
Head coach
Home stadiumSoldiers' Field
Seasons
← 1898
1900 →
1899 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard   –   10 – 0 – 1
Lafayette   –   12 – 1 – 0
Princeton   –   12 – 1 – 0
Buffalo   –   7 – 1 – 0
Boston College   –   8 – 1 – 1
Carlisle   –   9 – 2 – 0
Swarthmore   –   8 – 1 – 2
Washington & Jefferson   –   9 – 2 – 1
Wesleyan
   –   7 – 2 – 0
Pittsburgh College   –   2 – 0 – 2
Villanova   –   7 – 2 – 1
Yale   –   7 – 2 – 1
Western Univ. of Penn.   –   3 – 1 – 1
Columbia   –   9 – 3 – 0
Fordham
   –   3 – 1 – 0
Cornell   –   7 – 3 – 0
Penn   –   8 – 3 – 2
Brown   –   7 – 3 – 1
New Hampshire   –   4 – 2 – 0
Vermont   –   5 – 3 – 0
Tufts   –   7 – 4 – 0
Bucknell
   –   6 – 4 – 0
Holy Cross   –   5 – 5 – 0
Syracuse   –   4 – 4 – 0
Drexel   –   3 – 3 – 0
Army   –   4 – 5 – 0
Colgate   –   4 – 5 – 0
Penn State   –   4 – 6 – 1
Frankin & Marshall
   –   3 – 5 – 1
NYU   –   2 – 6 – 0
Temple
   –   1 – 4 – 1
Dartmouth   –   2 – 7 – 0
Lehigh   –   2 – 9 – 0
Rutgers   –   2 – 9 – 0
Geneva   –   0 – 3 – 0

The 1899 Harvard Crimson football team was an American football team that represented Harvard University as an independent during the 1899 college football season. In its first season under head coach Benjamin Dibblee, the Crimson compiled a 10–0–1 record, shut out 10 of 11 opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 210 to 10.[1]

There was no contemporaneous system in 1899 for determining a national champion. However, Harvard was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and National Championship Foundation. Princeton compiled a 12–1 record and was named the national champion by two other selectors.[2]: 112–114 

Two Harvard players were consensus first-team selections on the 1899 All-American football team: quarterback Charles Dudley Daly and end Dave Campbell.[3] Other players included halfback George A. Sawin, end John Hallowell, center Francis Lowell Burnett, guard William A. M. Burden Sr., and tackle Malcolm Donald.

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 30Williams
W 29–0[4]
October 4
Bowdoin
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 13–0[5]
October 7
Wesleyan
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 20–01,500[6]
October 11Amherst
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 41–0[7]
October 14at Army
W 18–0[8]
October 18
Bates
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 29–0[9]
October 213:00 p.m.Brown
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 11–07,000–8,000[10][11][12]
October 28Carlisle
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 22–1013,000[13]
November 4at Penn
W 16–0> 30,000[14]
November 113:00 p.m.Dartmouth
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 11–03,000[15][16][17][18]
November 18Yale
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
T 0–035,000[19][20]

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References

  1. ^ a b "1899 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved March 26, 2022.
  2. ^ 2020 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision Records (PDF). Indianapolis: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. July 2020. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 1, 2020. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
  3. ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
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