1929 Harvard Crimson football team

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1929 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–2–1
Head coach
CaptainJames E. Barrett
Home stadium Harvard Stadium
(capacity: 57,166)
Seasons
  1928
1930  
1929 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 3 Pittsburgh   9 1 0
Colgate   8 1 0
Fordham   7 0 2
Bucknell   8 2 0
No. 11 Penn   7 2 0
Boston College   7 2 1
Villanova   7 2 1
Cornell   6 2 0
Tufts   5 1 2
Harvard   5 2 1
Yale   5 2 1
NYU   7 3 0
Franklin & Marshall   6 3 0
Penn State   6 3 0
Syracuse   6 3 0
Washington & Jefferson   5 2 2
Drexel   6 3 1
Temple   6 3 1
Carnegie Tech   5 3 1
Army   6 4 1
Providence   3 3 2
Brown   5 5 0
Columbia   4 5 0
CCNY   2 4 2
Princeton   2 4 1
Boston University   3 6 0
Vermont   2 7 0
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1929 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1929 college football season. [1] The Crimson were led by fourth-year head coach Arnold Horween. They played their home games in Harvard Stadium with a capacity crowd of 57,166.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 5 Bates W 48–0
October 12 New Hampshire
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 35–0 [2]
October 19 Army
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
T 20–20
October 26 Dartmouth
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
L 7–3460,000 [3]
November 2 Florida
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 14–035,000 [4] [5]
November 9at Michigan L 12–1485,042
November 16 Holy Cross
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 12–6
November 23 Yale
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (Rivalry)
W 10–6

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References

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