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1896 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–4
Head coach
CaptainEdgar Wrightington
Home stadiumSoldiers' Field
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1896 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Fordham   –   1 – 0 – 0
Lafayette   –   11 – 0 – 1
Princeton   –   10 – 0 – 1
Washington & Jefferson   –   8 – 0 – 1
Penn   –   14 – 1 – 0
Yale   –   13 – 1 – 0
Pittsburgh College   –   11 – 2 – 0
Buffalo   –   9 – 1 – 2
Villanova   –   10 – 4 – 0
Bucknell   –   5 – 2 – 1
Harvard   –   7 – 4 – 0
Boston College   –   5 – 3 – 0
Storrs   –   5 – 3 – 0
Cornell   –   5 – 3 – 1
Syracuse   –   5 – 3 – 2
Temple   –   3 – 2 – 0
Army   –   3 – 2 – 1
Rutgers   –   6 – 6 – 0
Carlisle   –   5 – 5 – 0
Holy Cross   –   2 – 2 – 2
Brown   –   4 – 5 – 1
Wesleyan   –   4 – 5 – 1
Dickinson   –   4 – 5 – 0
Frankin & Marshall   –   3 – 4 – 2
Geneva   –   3 – 4 – 0
Penn State   –   3 – 4 – 0
Colgate   –   3 – 4 – 1
Amherst   –   3 – 6 – 1
Western Univ. Penn.   –   3 – 6 – 0
Lehigh   –   2 – 5 – 0
Tufts   –   2 – 6 – 1
Swarthmore   –   2 – 6 – 0
New Hampshire   –   1 – 4 – 0
Drexel   –   1 – 5 – 0
Massachusetts   –   0 – 4 – 0
Rhode Island   –   0 – 4 – 0

The 1896 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1896 college football season. The Crimson finished with a 7–4 record under first-year head coach Bert Waters. The team won its first six games, but lost four of the final five games, including losses to rivals Princeton and Penn.

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 26 WilliamsW 6–0
October 3 Trinity (CT)
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 34–0
October 7 Newton A.C.
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 18–0
October 10 Wesleyan
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 28–0
October 173:00 p.m. Brown
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 12–04,000
October 24at CornellW 13–4
October 28vs. Harvard alumni L 5–8
October 31 Carlisle
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 4–0
November 7 Princeton
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
L 0–1220,000
November 14 Boston Athletic Association
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
L 6–8
November 21at PennL 6–8

References

  1. "1896 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. "Plays Brown". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 17, 1896. p. 5. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com [REDACTED] .
  4. "Lost Her Chance". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 18, 1896. p. 2. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com [REDACTED] .
  5. "Brown Loses The Game". The New York Times. New York, New York. October 18, 1896. p. 6. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com [REDACTED] .
  6. "Princeton, 12; Harvard, 0". Boston Post. November 8, 1896. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
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