1907 Harvard Crimson football team

The 1907 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1907 college football season. The Crimson finished with a 7–3 record under first-year head coach Joshua Crane.[1][2] Walter Camp selected only one Harvard player, halfback Jack Wendell, as a first-team player on his 1907 College Football All-America Team. Caspar Whitney selected two Harvard players as first-team members of his All-America team: Wendell and center Patrick Grant.[3]

1907 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–3
Head coach
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
(capacity: 42,000)
1907 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Yale    9 0 1
Dartmouth    8 0 1
Penn    11 1 0
Carlisle    10 1 0
Temple    4 0 2
Fordham    6 1 1
Cornell    8 2 0
Western U. of Penn.    8 2 0
Princeton    7 2 0
Washington & Jefferson    7 2 0
Lafayette    7 2 1
Lehigh    7 2 1
Swarthmore    6 2 0
Army    6 2 1
NYU    5 2 0
Vermont    4 1 2
Harvard    7 3 0
Brown    7 3 0
Penn State    6 4 0
Syracuse    5 3 1
Drexel    3 2 2
Colgate    4 4 1
Geneva    4 5 2
Amherst    3 4 1
Tufts    3 4 1
Frankin & Marshall    4 6 0
Rutgers    3 5 1
Springfield Training School    2 4 2
Bucknell    4 7 0
New Hampshire    1 5 2
Villanova    1 5 1
Holy Cross    1 7 2
Wesleyan    1 7 1
Carnegie Tech    1 8 0

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28 BowdoinW 5–0
October 2 Maine
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 30–0
October 5 Bates
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 33–4
October 12 Williams
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 18–0
October 19at NavyW 6–0
October 263:00 p.m. Springfield Training School
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 9–512,000[4][5][6]
November 2 Brown
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 6–5
November 9 Carlisle
  • Harvard Stadium,
  • Boston, MA
L 15–23
November 16 Dartmouth
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
L 0–22
November 23 Yale
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
L 0–1240,000[7]

References

  1. "1907 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. "Casper Whitney Shuns the West: Eleven Eastern Players Picked for All-American Eleven". Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. December 26, 1907.
  4. "Harvard Ought To Win Easily". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 26, 1907. p. 4. Retrieved March 28, 2022 via Newspapers.com open access.
  5. "Day Of Surprises On The Gridiron". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 27, 1907. p. 1. Retrieved March 28, 2022 via Newspapers.com open access.
  6. "Day Of Surprises On The Gridiron (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 27, 1907. p. 12. Retrieved March 28, 2022 via Newspapers.com open access.
  7. "Yale's Greatest Football Season Closes with a Victory Over Harvard at Cambridge Yesterday: Yale Vanquishes Harvard, 12 to 0". The New York Times. November 24, 1907. pp. 29, 30 via Newspapers.com.


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