1903 Harvard Crimson football team

The 1903 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1903 college football season. The Crimson finished with a 9–3 record under first-year head coach John Cranston.[1][2] Walter Camp selected two Harvard players as first-team selections to his 1903 College Football All-America Team. They were tackle Daniel Knowlton and guard Andrew Marshall.[3]

1903 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–3
Head coach
Home stadiumSoldiers' Field
Harvard Stadium
1903 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Princeton   –  11 –0 –0
Yale   –  11 –1 –0
Columbia   –  9 –1 –0
Dartmouth   –  9 –1 –0
Geneva   –  9 –1 –0
Holy Cross   –  8 –2 –0
Temple   –  4 –1 –0
Washington & Jefferson   –  8 –2 –0
Lehigh   –  9 –2 –1
Harvard   –  9 –3 –0
Penn   –  9 –3 –0
Army   –  6 –2 –1
Carlisle   –  6 –2 –1
Amherst   –  7 –3 –0
Lafayette   –  7 –3 –0
Cornell   –  6 –3 –1
Colgate   –  4 –2 –1
Penn State   –  5 –3 –0
Swarthmore   –  6 –4 –0
Brown   –  5 –4 –1
Syracuse   –  5 –4 –0
Fordham   –  1 –1 –0
Frankin & Marshall   –  5 –5 –1
Buffalo   –  4 –4 –0
Rutgers   –  4 –4 –1
Delaware   –  4 –4 –0
Villanova   –  2 –2 –0
Bucknell   –  4 –5 –0
Vermont   –  4 –5 –0
Tufts   –  5 –8 –0
Wesleyan   –  3 –6 –1
Springfield Training School   –  1 –3 –1
NYU   –  2 –5 –0
New Hampshire   –  2 –6 –1
Pittsburgh College   –  1 –5 –1
Western U. Penn.   –  1 –8 –1

The 1903 season was also notable for the opening of Harvard Stadium, which hosted its first game on November 14 against Dartmouth.

Schedule
DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 263:07 p.m. Williams
W 17–0[4][5][6]
September 304:00 p.m. Bowdoin
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 24–0[7][8]
October 33:00 p.m. Maine
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 6–0[9][10]
October 74:00 p.m. Bates
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 23–03,000[11][12]
October 103:00 p.m. Amherst
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
L 0–52,000[13][14][15]
October 144:00 p.m. Wesleyan
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 17–63,500[16][17]
October 17at Army
W 5–08,000–30,000[18][19][20]
October 243:00 p.m. Brown
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 29–09,000[21][22][23]
October 313:00 p.m. Carlisle
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 12–1112,000[24][25][26][27]
November 7at Penn
W 17–1023,000[28][29][30][31]
November 143:00 p.m. Dartmouth
L 0–1115,000[32][33][34][35]
November 212:00 p.m. Yale
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
L 0–1637,000[36][37][38][39][40][41]

References
  1. "1903 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. "Walter Camp Names All American Team". The Trenton Times. December 10, 1903.
  4. "First Game.—Harvard Will Play Williams Today". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. September 26, 1903. p. 6. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  5. "Crimson Triumphant". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. September 27, 1903. p. 1. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  6. "Crimson Triumphs (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. September 27, 1903. p. 5. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  7. "Harvard Vs Bowdoin". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. September 30, 1903. p. 5. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  8. "Bowdoin Gives Harvard Quite A Lively Fight". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 1, 1903. p. 7. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  9. "Harvard Vs Maine". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 3, 1903. p. 11. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  10. "Crimson Line Badly Shaken". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 4, 1903. p. 2. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  11. "Against Bates". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 7, 1903. p. 8. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  12. "Harvard Plays Rushing Game". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 8, 1903. p. 5. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  13. "Has A Chance". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 10, 1903. p. 3. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  14. "Amherst 5, Harvard 0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 11, 1903. p. 1. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  15. "Amherst 5, Harvard 0 (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 11, 1903. p. 10. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  16. "Do Better". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 14, 1903. p. 8. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  17. "On A Fumble". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 15, 1903. p. 8. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  18. Webb, Melville E. Jr. (October 18, 1903). "Harvard 5, West Point, 0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 1. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  19. Webb, Melville E. Jr. (October 18, 1903). "Harvard 5, West Point, 0 (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 2. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  20. "Harvard, 5; West Point, 0". The New York Times. New York, New York. October 18, 1903. p. 14. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  21. "Brown Today". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 24, 1903. p. 5. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  22. "Play Fast Football". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 25, 1903. p. 1. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  23. "Play Fast Football (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 25, 1903. p. 5. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  24. Webb, Melville E. Jr. (October 31, 1903). "Harvard Plays Indians Today". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 1. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  25. Webb, Melville E. Jr. (October 31, 1903). "Harvard Plays Indians Today (continued)". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 5. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  26. "Indians Spring The Trick Play". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 1, 1903. p. 1. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  27. "Indians Spring The Trick Play (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 1, 1903. p. 9. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  28. "Harvard And Penn Teams Meet Today". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 7, 1903. p. 1. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  29. "Harvard And Penn Teams Meet Today (continued)". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 7, 1903. p. 7. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  30. Webb, Melville E. Jr. (November 8, 1903). "Harvard 17, Pennsy 10". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 1. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  31. Webb, Melville E. Jr. (November 8, 1903). "Harvard 17, Pennsy 10 (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 5. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  32. "Expects A Hard Game". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 14, 1903. p. 1. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  33. "Expects A Hard Game (continued)". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 14, 1903. p. 3. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  34. "Excelled All Around". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 15, 1903. p. 1. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  35. "Excelled All Around (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 15, 1903. p. 8. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  36. Webb, Melville E. Jr. (November 21, 1903). "Harvard And Yale Ready For The Fray". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 1. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  37. Webb, Melville E. Jr. (November 21, 1903). "Harvard And Yale Ready For The Fray (continued)". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 7. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  38. Webb, Melville E. Jr. (November 21, 1903). "Harvard And Yale Ready For The Fray (continued)". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 8. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  39. Webb, Melville E. Jr. (November 21, 1903). "Harvard Fight Hard But Yale Wins 16-0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 1. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  40. Webb, Melville E. Jr. (November 21, 1903). "Yale Wins 16-0 (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 5. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  41. Webb, Melville E. Jr. (November 21, 1903). "Yale Wins 16-0 (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 9. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.


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