1912 Harvard Crimson football team

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1912 Harvard Crimson football
National champion
(Billingsley, Helms, Houlgate, Davis)
Co-national champion (NCF)
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–0
Head coach
CaptainPercy Wendell
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
Seasons
← 1911
1913 →
1912 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard   –   9 – 0 – 0
Penn State   –   8 – 0 – 0
Carlisle   –   12 – 1 – 1
Maine   –   7 – 1 – 0
Princeton   –   7 – 1 – 1
Swarthmore   –   7 – 1 – 1
Yale   –   7 – 1 – 1
Lehigh   –   9 – 2 – 0
Dartmouth   –   7 – 2 – 0
Wesleyan
   –   7 – 2 – 0
Colgate   –   5 – 2 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   8 – 3 – 1
Rhode Island State   –   6 – 3 – 0
Bucknell   –   6 – 3 – 1
Temple
   –   3 – 2 – 0
Penn   –   7 – 4 – 0
Army   –   5 – 3 – 0
Brown   –   6 – 4 – 0
Franklin & Marshall
   –   6 – 4 – 0
Holy Cross   –   4 – 3 – 1
Rutgers   –   5 – 4 – 0
Tufts   –   5 – 4 – 0
Fordham   –   4 – 4 – 0
Villanova   –   3 – 3 – 0
Morris Harvey   –   2 – 2 – 0
Lafayette   –   4 – 5 – 1
Syracuse   –   4 – 5 – 0
Carnegie Tech
   –   3 – 4 – 1
Geneva   –   3 – 4 – 0
Vermont   –   3 – 5 – 0
Pittsburgh   –   3 – 6 – 0
Boston College   –   2 – 4 – 1
Cornell   –   3 – 7 – 0
NYU   –   2 – 6 – 0

The 1912 Harvard Crimson football team was an American football team that represented Harvard University as an independent during the 1912 college football season. In their fifth season under head coach Percy Haughton, the Crimson compiled a perfect 9–0 record, shut out five of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 176 to 22.[1] The season was part of an unbeaten streak that began in November 1911 and continued until October 1915.

There was no contemporaneous system in 1912 for determining a national champion. However, Harvard was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and Parke H. Davis, and as a co-national champion by the National Championship Foundation.[2]

Bob Storer, Harvey Hitchcock, Derric Choate Parmenter, Gerard Timothy Driscoll, and Francis Joseph O'Brien. Pennock, Wendell, and Hardwick were later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.[4][5][6]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28Maine
W 7–0[7]
October 5Holy Cross
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 19–07,000[8]
October 12Williams
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 26–3[9]
October 19
Amherst
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 46–0[10]
October 26Brown
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 30–10> 15,000[11]
November 2Princeton
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 16–630,000[12]
November 9Vanderbilt
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 9–3[13]
November 16Dartmouth
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 3–0> 40,000[14]
November 23at Yale
W 20–0[15]

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References

  1. ^ a b "1912 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  3. ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  4. ^ "Percy Wendell". National Football Foundation. Retrieved March 26, 2022.
  5. ^ "Stan Pennock". National Football Foundation. Retrieved March 26, 2022.
  6. ^ "Huntington "Tack" Hardwick". National Football Foundation. Retrieved March 26, 2022.
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