1889 Harvard Crimson football team

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.[1][2]

1889 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–2
Head coach
  • None
CaptainArthur Cumnock
Home stadiumJarvis Field
1889 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW 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
Delaware   –  1 –1 –1
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

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.[3]

Schedule
DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2 Phillips Exeter
W 28–0 [4]
October 5 Stevens
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA
W 28–4 [5]
October 12 Dartmouth
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA (rivalry)
W 38–0 [6]
October 164:00 p.m. MIT
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA
W 62–0 [7][8]
October 19 Williams
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA
W 41–0 [9]
October 23 Phillips Academy Cambridge, MAW 41–0 [10]
October 263:15 p.m. Wesleyan
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA
W 64–0 [11]
November 2 Penn
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA
W 35–02,000[12][13]
November 9vs. Wesleyan
W 67–2 [14]
November 162:45 p.m. Princeton
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA (rivalry)
L 15–4110,000[15][16][17]
November 232:00 p.m.vs. Yale
  • Hampden Park
  • Springfield, MA (rivalry)
L 0–615,000[18][19]

References
  1. "1889 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. "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  4. "Over Exeter's Goal". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 3, 1889. p. 7. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  5. "Touchdown For Stevens". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 6, 1889. p. 2. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  6. "Harvard's Goal". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 13, 1889. p. 2. Retrieved March 21, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  7. "Harvard's Best Game". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 17, 1889. p. 2. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  8. "College Sports". Boston Evening Transcript. Boston, Massachusetts. October 17, 1889. p. 3. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  9. "Punting For Points". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 20, 1889. p. 6. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  10. "Harvard Had Hard Work". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 24, 1889. p. 3. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  11. "Crimson Punters Won". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 27, 1889. p. 2. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  12. "Harvard Beats Pennsylvania". The New York Times. November 3, 1889. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. "Foot-ball On Saturday". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. November 4, 1889. p. 1. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  14. "Harvard Defeats Wesleyan". The New York Times. November 10, 1889. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. "Jersey Sand". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 17, 1889. p. 1. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  16. "Jersey Sand (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 17, 1889. p. 4. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  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 open access.


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