1895 Harvard Crimson football team

The 1895 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1895 college football season. The Crimson finished with an 8–2–1 record. First-year head coach Robert Emmons led the team from October 21 to November 3.[1] Following the team's 12–4 loss to Princeton, assistant Lorin F. Deland took over as head coach.[2] He led the team to a 1–1–1 record in their last three games, including a 17–14 loss to Penn, the closest the undefeated Quakers came to defeat that year.[3]

1895 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–2–1
Head coach
Home stadiumSoldiers' Field
1895 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Penn    14 0 0
Yale    13 0 2
Princeton    10 1 1
Washington & Jefferson    6 1 1
Harvard    8 2 1
Lafayette    6 2 0
Syracuse    6 2 2
Army    5 2 0
Bucknell    5 2 0
Colgate    4 2 0
Swarthmore    7 4 1
Tufts    8 5 0
Villanova    4 2 0
Wesleyan    6 3 0
Amherst    6 5 0
Brown    7 6 1
Carlisle    4 4 0
Drexel    3 3 1
Penn State    2 2 3
Cornell    3 4 1
Rutgers    3 4 0
New Hampshire    2 3 1
Frankin & Marshall    3 5 1
Boston College    2 4 2
Lehigh    3 6 0
CCNY    2 5 1
Buffalo    1 4 2
Temple    1 4 1
MIT    1 4 0
Trinity (CT)    1 4 0
Massachusetts    1 5 0
Western Univ. Penn.    1 6 0
Geneva    0 5 0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2 DartmouthW 4–03,000[4]
October 5 Amherst
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 24–0
October 9 Phillips Exeter
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 42–0
October 12at ArmyW 4–0
October 16 Williams
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 32–0
October 19 Brown
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 26–65,000[5][6]
October 26 Cornell
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 25–0
November 2at PrincetonL 4–12
November 9 Michigan
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 4–06,000
November 16 Boston Athletic Association
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
T 0–0
November 23 Penn
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
L 14–17[7]

References

  1. "Emmons to coach". The Boston Daily Globe. October 22, 1895.
  2. "Bracing Harvard's Team". The New York Times. November 12, 1895.
  3. Featherweight (April 5, 1896). "Coach Deland Resigns". The Boston Daily Globe.
  4. "Harvard's Close Call". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. September 29, 1895. p. 1. Retrieved March 22, 2022 via Newspapers.com open access.
  5. "Brown Did It Again". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 20, 1895. p. 1. Retrieved March 9, 2022 via Newspapers.com open access.
  6. "Brown Did It (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 20, 1895. p. 2. Retrieved March 9, 2022 via Newspapers.com open access.
  7. "U. of P. 17, Harvard 14: Fought to the Last; Although Surely Beaten, Harvard Played Pluckily On". The Boston Globe. November 24, 1895. pp. 1, 2 via Newspapers.com.


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