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1889 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–2
Head coach
  • None
CaptainArthur Cumnock
Home stadiumJarvis Field
Seasons← 18881890 →
1889 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton   –   10 – 0 – 0
Massachusetts   –   2 – 0 – 0
Yale   –   15 – 1 – 0
Harvard   –   9 – 2 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   5 – 1 – 1
Dickinson   –   4 – 1 – 1
Navy   –   4 – 1 – 1
Tufts   –   3 – 1 – 0
Lehigh   –   8 – 3 – 2
Cornell   –   8 – 4 – 0
Penn   –   7 – 6 – 0
Brown   –   2 – 2 – 0
Penn State   –   2 – 2 – 0
Wesleyan   –   5 – 7 – 1
Bucknell   –   2 – 3 – 1
Lafayette   –   3 – 4 – 2
Columbia   –   2 – 7 – 2
Fordham   –   1 – 3 – 0
Rutgers   –   1 – 4 – 0
NYU   –   0 – 2 – 0

The 1889 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1889 college football season. The Crimson finished with a 9–2 record. The team won its first ten games by a combined score of 404–6, but lost its last two games, against Princeton and Yale, giving up 41 points against Princeton.

Three Harvard players were selected as first-team players on the 1889 College Football All-America Team: end and team Arthur Cumnock, halfback James P. Lee, and guard John Cranston.

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2 Phillips ExeterW 28–0
October 5 Stevens
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA
W 28–4
October 12 Dartmouth
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA (rivalry)
W 38–0
October 164:00 p.m. MIT
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA
W 62–0
October 19 Williams
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA
W 41–0
October 23 Phillips Academy Cambridge, MAW 41–0
October 263:15 p.m. Wesleyan
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA
W 64–0
November 2 Penn
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA
W 35–02,000
November 9vs. WesleyanW 67–2
November 162:45 p.m. Princeton
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA (rivalry)
L 15–4110,000
November 232:00 p.m.vs. Yale
  • Hampden Park
  • Springfield, MA (rivalry)
L 0–615,000

References

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  2. "Harvard Football Yearly Records". GoCrimson.com. Harvard University. Archived from the original on August 14, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  3. "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
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  6. "Harvard's Goal". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 13, 1889. p. 2. Retrieved March 21, 2022 – via Newspapers.com [REDACTED] .
  7. "Harvard's Best Game". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 17, 1889. p. 2. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com [REDACTED] .
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  12. "Harvard Beats Pennsylvania". The New York Times. November 3, 1889. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
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  14. "Harvard Defeats Wesleyan". The New York Times. November 10, 1889. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
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  16. "Jersey Sand (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 17, 1889. p. 4. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com [REDACTED] .
  17. "Harvard Went To Pieces". The New York Times. November 17, 1889. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. "Yale Wins From Harvard". The New York Times. November 24, 1889. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. "Leather Chasing". Brooklyn Citizen. Brooklyn, New York. November 24, 1889. p. 3. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com [REDACTED] .
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