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 stadium Soldiers' Field
Seasons
←  1898
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1899 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW 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
Dickinson  – 6–6–1
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
Franklin & 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]

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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 30 Williams
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 11 Amherst
  • 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 28 Carlisle
  • 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 18 Yale
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
T 0–035,000 [19] [20]

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Roster

References

  1. 1 2 "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.
  4. ↑ "Starts With Rush: Harvard Eleven Wins Its First Game of the Season". The Boston Globe. October 1, 1899. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "Harvard's Jonah: Crimsons Score Only 13 Against Bowdoin". The Boston Globe. October 5, 1899. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ "20 to 0: Harvard Does Not Find Wesleyan Easy". The Boston Globe. October 8, 1899. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "Scores At Will". The Boston Globe . Boston, Massachusetts. October 12, 1899. p. 7. Retrieved April 11, 2021– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  8. ↑ "End Plays Easy: Harvard Scores Touchdown in Short Order". The Boston Globe. October 15, 1899. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ "Scores Easily: Harvard Beats Bates, but Latter Plucky". The Boston Globe. October 19, 1899. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ "Harvard---Brown". The Boston Globe . Boston, Massachusetts. October 21, 1899. p. 2. Retrieved March 13, 2022– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  11. ↑ "Harvard's Game". The Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Massachusetts. October 22, 1899. p. 1. Retrieved March 13, 2022– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  12. ↑ "Harvard's Game (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Massachusetts. October 22, 1899. p. 2. Retrieved March 13, 2022– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  13. ↑ "Harvard Only One of the Big Four to Win: Harvard 22, Indians 10". The Boston Post. October 29, 1899. pp. 1, 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ↑ "Harvard Defeats Pennsylvania Team: The Quakers Were Outplayed in Every Department of the Game". The Times. Philadelphia. November 5, 1899. pp. 1, 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ↑ "Amusing Incident". The Boston Daily Globe . Boston, Massachusetts. November 11, 1899. p. 8. Retrieved March 23, 2022– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  16. ↑ "By Small Score". The Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Massachusetts. November 12, 1899. p. 1. Retrieved March 23, 2022– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  17. ↑ "By Small Score (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Massachusetts. November 12, 1899. p. 5. Retrieved March 23, 2022– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  18. ↑ "Harvard Wins In Mud". Chicago Tribune . Chicago, Illinois. November 12, 1899. p. 18. Retrieved March 23, 2022– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  19. ↑ "Harvard and Yale in a Battle Royal". The New York Times. November 19, 1899. pp. 1–2 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. ↑ "Honors Even: Harvard and Yale Play Tie Game, Neither Scoring". The Boston Globe. November 19, 1899. pp. 1, 4 – via Newspapers.com.
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