1908 Harvard Crimson football team

The 1908 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1908 college football season. The team finished with a 9–0–1 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report.[1] They outscored their opponents 132 to 8.[2]

1908 Harvard Crimson football
National champion (Billingsley)
ConferenceIndependent
1908 record9–0–1
Head coach
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
(Capacity: 42,000)
1908 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Penn   –  11 –0 –1
Harvard   –  9 –0 –1
Cornell   –  7 –1 –1
Fordham   –  5 –1 –0
Yale   –  7 –1 –1
Dartmouth   –  6 –1 –1
Carlisle   –  10 –2 –1
Washington & Jefferson   –  10 –2 –1
Army   –  6 –1 –2
Pittsburgh   –  8 –3 –0
Lafayette   –  6 –2 –2
Princeton   –  5 –2 –3
Syracuse   –  6 –3 –1
Brown   –  5 –3 –1
Temple   –  3 –2 –1
Colgate   –  4 –3 –0
Lehigh   –  4 –3 –0
Dickinson   –  5 –4 –0
Amherst   –  3 –3 –2
Holy Cross   –  4 –4 –0
Penn State   –  5 –5 –0
Vermont   –  3 –3 –3
Wesleyan   –  3 –4 –2
NYU   –  2 –3 –2
Frankin & Marshall   –  4 –6 –1
Bucknell   –  3 –5 –2
Rutgers   –  3 –5 –1
Boston College   –  2 –4 –2
Carnegie Tech   –  3 –7 –0
Geneva   –  1 –6 –2
Tufts   –  1 –6 –1
Villanova   –  1 –6 –0
Drexel   –  0 –7 –0

Schedule
DateOpponentSiteResult
September 30Bowdoin
W 5–0
October 3Maine
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 16–0
October 7Bates
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 18–0
October 10Williams
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 10–0
October 17Springfield YMCA
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 44–0
October 24at Navy
T 6–6
October 31Brown
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 6–2
November 7Carlisle
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 17–0
November 14Dartmouth
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 6–0
November 21at Yale
W 4–0

References
  1. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  2. "1908 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.