1907 Harvard Crimson football team

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1907 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–3
Head coach
Home stadium Harvard Stadium
Seasons
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1907 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Yale  – 9–0–1
Dartmouth  – 8–0–1
Penn  – 11–1–0
Carlisle  – 10–1–0
Temple  – 4–0–2
Fordham  – 6–1–1
Cornell  – 8–2–0
Western U. of Penn.  – 8–2–0
Princeton  – 7–2–0
Washington & Jefferson  – 7–2–0
Lafayette  – 7–2–1
Lehigh  – 7–2–1
Swarthmore  – 6–2–0
Army  – 6–2–1
NYU  – 5–2–0
Vermont  – 4–1–2
Harvard  – 7–3–0
Brown  – 7–3–0
Penn State  – 6–4–0
Syracuse  – 5–3–1
Drexel  – 3–2–2
Colgate  – 4–4–1
Geneva  – 4–5–2
Dickinson  – 3–4–2
Amherst  – 3–4–1
Tufts  – 3–4–1
Frankin & Marshall  – 4–6–0
Rutgers  – 3–5–1
Springfield Training School  – 2–4–2
Bucknell  – 4–7–0
New Hampshire  – 1–5–2
Villanova  – 1–5–1
Holy Cross  – 1–7–2
Wesleyan  – 1–7–1
Carnegie Tech  – 1–8–0

The 1907 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1907 college football season. The Crimson finished with a 7–3 record under first-year head coach Joshua Crane. [1] [2] Walter Camp selected only one Harvard player, halfback Jack Wendell, as a first-team player on his 1907 College Football All-America Team. Caspar Whitney selected two Harvard players as first-team members of his All-America team: Wendell and center Patrick Grant. [3]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28 Bowdoin
W 5–0
October 2 Maine
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 30–0
October 5 Bates
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 33–4
October 12 Williams
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 18–0
October 19at Navy
W 6–0
October 263:00 p.m. Springfield Training School
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 9–512,000 [4] [5] [6]
November 2 Brown
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 6–5
November 9 Carlisle
  • Harvard Stadium,
  • Boston, MA
L 15–23
November 16 Dartmouth
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
L 0–22
November 23 Yale
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
L 0–1240,000 [7]

References

  1. ↑ "1907 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Harvard Football Yearly Records". GoCrimson.com. Harvard University. Archived from the original on August 14, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Casper Whitney Shuns the West: Eleven Eastern Players Picked for All-American Eleven". Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. December 26, 1907.
  4. ↑ "Harvard Ought To Win Easily". The Boston Daily Globe . Boston, Massachusetts. October 26, 1907. p. 4. Retrieved March 28, 2022– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  5. ↑ "Day Of Surprises On The Gridiron". The Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Massachusetts. October 27, 1907. p. 1. Retrieved March 28, 2022– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  6. ↑ "Day Of Surprises On The Gridiron (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Massachusetts. October 27, 1907. p. 12. Retrieved March 28, 2022– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  7. ↑ "Yale's Greatest Football Season Closes with a Victory Over Harvard at Cambridge Yesterday: Yale Vanquishes Harvard, 12 to 0". The New York Times. November 24, 1907. pp. 29, 30 – via Newspapers.com.


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