1941 Harvard Crimson football team

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1941 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIvy League
Record5–2–1 (4–2 Ivy)
Head coach
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
Seasons
← 1940
1942 →
1941 Ivy League football standings
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 15 Penn $ 5 – 0 – 0 7 – 1 – 0
Columbia 3 – 1 – 0 3 – 5 – 0
Harvard 4 – 2 – 0 5 – 2 – 1
Cornell 3 – 2 – 0 5 – 3 – 0
Dartmouth 2 – 2 – 0 5 – 4 – 0
Brown 1 – 2 – 0 5 – 4 – 0
Princeton 1 – 4 – 0 2 – 6 – 0
Yale 0 – 6 – 0 1 – 7 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from
AP Poll

The 1941 Harvard Crimson football team was an

AP Poll released on November 10, 1941, and No. 19 in the poll released on November 24, 1941.[1] The team was unranked in the final AP Poll but was ranked at No. 32 (out of 681 teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1941.[2]

Harvard's Endicott Peabody won the 1941 Knute Rockne Memorial Trophy as the best collegiate lineman and was the only player to be unanimously selected by all nine official selectors as a first-team player on the 1941 All-America team.[3] Peabody and end Loren MacKinney were also selected by the Associated Press as first-team players on the 1941 All-Eastern football team.[4] Peabody was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame and served as Governor of Massachusetts.

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 4at Penn
L 0–1940,000[5][6]
October 11Cornell
L 0–720,000[7]
October 18Dartmouth
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 7–037,000[8]
October 25 No. 5 Navy*
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 20–640,000[9]
November 1at Princeton
W 6–418,000[10]
November 8 No. 11 Army*
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 20–653,000[11]
November 15BrownNo. 17
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 23–720,000[12]
November 22Yale
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 14–053,000[13]
  • *Non-conference game
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

  1. ^ "1941 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved September 11, 2019.
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  3. ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 8. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
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  9. ^ "Navy tied by Harvard". Pittsburgh Press. United Press. October 26, 1941. p. 11, part 3.
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  11. ^ "Harvard uncovers scoring punch to kayo Army, 20-7". Pittsburgh. United Press. November 9, 1941. p. 14, part 3.
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