1913 Harvard Crimson football team

1913 Harvard Crimson football
National champion (Helms, Houlgate, NCF) Co-national champion (Davis)
Conference	Independent
Record	9–0
Head coach	Percy Haughton (6th season)
Captain	Robert Treat Paine Storer
Home stadium	Harvard Stadium
Seasons ←  1912 1914  →

1913 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Harvard			–					9	–	0	–	0
Carlisle			–					10	–	1	–	1
Washington & Jefferson			–					10	–	0	–	1
Army			–					8	–	1	–	0
Dartmouth			–					7	–	1	–	0
Tufts			–					7	–	1	–	0
Colgate			–					6	–	1	–	1
Franklin & Marshall			–					6	–	2	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					6	–	2	–	1
Princeton			–					5	–	2	–	1
Yale			–					5	–	2	–	3
Rutgers			–					6	–	3	–	0
Penn			–					6	–	3	–	1
Villanova			–					4	–	2	–	1
Lehigh			–					5	–	3	–	0
Bucknell			–					6	–	4	–	0
Cornell			–					5	–	4	–	1
Boston College			–					4	–	3	–	1
Syracuse			–					6	–	4	–	0
Fordham			–					3	–	3	–	2
Geneva			–					4	–	4	–	0
Lafayette			–					4	–	5	–	1
Brown			–					4	–	5	–	0
Duquesne			–					3	–	5	–	1
Carnegie Tech			–					2	–	4	–	1
Holy Cross			–					3	–	6	–	0
New Hampshire			–					2	–	4	–	0
Temple			–					1	–	3	–	2
Penn State			–					2	–	6	–	0
Rhode Island State			–					2	–	6	–	0
Vermont			–					1	–	5	–	0
NYU			–					0	–	8	–	0

The 1913 Harvard Crimson football team was an American football team that represented Harvard University as an independent during the 1913 college football season. In its sixth season under head coach Percy Haughton, the Crimson compiled a perfect 9–0 record, shut out five of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 225 to 21. ^[1] The season was part of an unbeaten streak that began in November 1911 and continued until October 1915.

At the end of the season the team was named as the year's champion by The New York Times . ^[2] Harvard was later retroactively named as national champions by the Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and National Championship Foundation, and as a co-national champion with Chicago by Parke H. Davis. ^[3]

Four Harvard players were consensus first-team selections on the 1913 All-American football team: halfback Eddie Mahan, fullback Charles Brickley, guard Stan Pennock, and tackle Harvey Rexford Hitchcock Jr. ^[4] Other notable players included ends Huntington Hardwick and Francis Joseph O'Brien and tackle Robert Treat Paine Storer. Mahan, Pennock, and Hardwick were all inducted in the 1950s into the College Football Hall of Fame. ^{[5] [6] [7]}

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 27	3:00 p.m.	Maine	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 34–0	8,000–10,000	[8] [9]
October 4	3:00 p.m.	Bates	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 14–0		[10]
October 11	3:00 p.m.	Williams	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 23–3		[11] [12]
October 18		Holy Cross	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 47–7		[13]
October 25		Penn State	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 29–0		[14]
November 1	2:00 p.m.	Cornell	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 23–6	15,000	[15] [16]
November 8		at Princeton	Osborne Field Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	W 3–0	25,000	[17]
November 15		Brown	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 37–0	> 25,000	[18]
November 22		Yale	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	W 15–5	50,000	[19]
Source: [1]

Roster

• Bettle, FB
• Frederick Bradlee, HB
• Charles Brickley, FB
• Coolidge, E
• Cowen, G
• Dana, E
• Joseph Gilman, T
• Huntington Hardwick, HB
• Harvey Rexford Hitchcock Jr., T
• Logan, QB
• Eddie Mahan, HB
• Mills, G
• F. J. O'Brien, E
• Stan Pennock, G
• Ernest William Soucy, C
• Robert Treat Paine Storer, E
• Walter Henry Trumbull, C
• Withington, T

References

1. "1913 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
2. "Some of the Champions In Amateur Sports In America In 1913". The New York Times . December 14, 1913. Sports; 1–2. Harvard Wins Championship After Season of Form Reversals
3. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
4. "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
5. "Eddie Mahan". National Football Foundation. Retrieved March 26, 2022.
6. "Stan Pennock". National Football Foundation. Retrieved March 26, 2022.
7. "Huntington "Tack" Hardwick". National Football Foundation. Retrieved March 26, 2022.
8. "Harvard Beats Maine by 34 to 0: Rapid-Fire Scoring in First Eight Minutes of Play". The Boston Globe. September 28, 1913. pp. 1, 10 – via Newspapers.com.
9. "Harvard Plays Today Its First Game of 1913". The Boston Globe. September 27, 1913. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
10. "Bates Holds Harvard to 14-0 Score". The Boston Globe. October 5, 1913. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
11. "Williams Crumbles Under Final Smashing Attack of the Crimson". The Boston Globe. October 12, 1913. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
12. "Harvard Ready for Williams". The Boston Globe. October 11, 1913. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
13. "Holy Cross Victory". The Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Mass. October 12, 1913. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
14. "Harvard Has It Easy, 29-0: Penn State Never Has Half a Chance in Stadium". The Boston Globe. October 26, 1913. pp. 1, 10 – via Newspapers.com.
15. "Harvard's Game, 23-5: Cornell Never in Running". The Boston Globe. November 2, 1913. pp. 1, 11 – via Newspapers.com.
16. "Harvard Minus Three Regulars". The Boston Globe. November 1, 1913. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
17. Melville E. Webb Jr. (November 9, 1913). "Harvard Breaks an Old Tradition: Tigers Beaten on Own Field for First Time by Crimson". The Boston Globe. pp. 1, 14 – via Newspapers.com.
18. "Harvard Piles Up 37 Points on Brown". The Boston Globe. November 16, 1913. pp. 1, 10 – via Newspapers.com.
19. Melville E. Webb Jr.date=November 23, 1913. "Harvard Smashes Two Traditions, Pushing Yale Back To 15-5 Defeat". The Boston Globe. pp. 1, 8 – via Newspapers.com.