1912 Harvard Crimson football team

The 1912 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1912 college football season. The team finished with a 9–0 record and 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.[1] They outscored their opponents 176 to 22.[2]

1912 Harvard Crimson football
National champion
(Billingsley, Helms, Houlgate, Davis)
Co-national champion (NCF)
ConferenceIndependent
1912 record9–0
Head coach
CaptainPercy Langdon Wendell
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
1912 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Harvard    9 0 0
Penn State    8 0 0
Carlisle    12 1 1
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

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
September 28MaineW 7–0
October 5Holy Cross
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 19–0
October 12Williams
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 26–3
October 19Amherst
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 46–0
October 26Brown
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 30–10
November 2Princeton
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 16–6
November 9Vanderbilt
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 9–3
November 16Dartmouth
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 3–0
November 23at YaleW 20–0

[2]

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. "1912 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
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