1939 Harvard Crimson football team

The 1939 Harvard Crimson football team was an American football team that represented Harvard University as an independent during the 1939 college football season. In its fifth season under head coach Dick Harlow, the team compiled a 4–4 record and outscored opponents by a total of 162 to 67.[1][2]

1939 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–4
Head coach
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
1939 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 4 Cornell   –  8 –0 –0
No. 10 Duquesne   –  8 –0 –1
Swarthmore   –  6 –0 –1
Scranton   –  7 –0 –2
Princeton   –  7 –1 –0
La Salle   –  6 –1 –1
Penn State   –  5 –1 –2
No. 11 Boston College   –  9 –2 –0
No. 17 Fordham   –  6 –2 –0
Villanova   –  6 –2 –0
Boston University   –  5 –3 –0
Brown   –  5 –3 –1
Dartmouth   –  5 –3 –1
Hofstra   –  4 –3 –0
NYU   –  5 –4 –0
Pittsburgh   –  5 –4 –0
Harvard   –  4 –4 –0
Manhattan   –  4 –4 –0
Penn   –  4 –4 –0
Syracuse   –  3 –3 –2
Vermont   –  3 –3 –2
Tufts   –  3 –4 –1
Yale   –  3 –4 –1
Army   –  3 –4 –2
Bucknell   –  3 –5 –0
Carnegie Tech   –  3 –5 –0
Providence   –  3 –5 –0
Columbia   –  2 –4 –2
Massachusetts State   –  2 –5 –2
Colgate   –  2 –5 –1
Temple   –  2 –7 –0
CCNY   –  1 –7 –0
Buffalo   –  0 –7 –0
Rankings from AP Poll

Harvard was ranked at No. 57 (out of 609 teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1939.[3]

The team played its home games at Harvard Stadium in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Schedule
DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 7Bates
W 20–0[4]
October 14at Chicago
W 61–0[5]
October 21Penn
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
L 7–2230,000[6]
October 28Dartmouth
  • BostonStadium
  • Cambridge, MA (rivalry)
L 0–1635,000[7]
November 4at Princeton
L 6–9[8]
November 11Army
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 15–045,000[9]
November 18New Hampshire
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 46–015,000[10][11]
November 25Yale
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
L 7–2052,000[12]

References
  1. "1939 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved April 11, 2020.
  2. "Harvard Football Yearly Records". GoCrimson.com. Harvard University. Archived from the original on August 14, 2014. Retrieved June 25, 2019.
  3. E. E. Litkenhous (December 31, 1939). "Vols Second In Final Litkenhous Grid Rankings; Southern California Tenth". Johnson City Sunday Press. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Harvard Swamps Little Bates, 20-0". New York Daily News. October 8, 1939. p. 99 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. Charles Bartlett (October 14, 1939). "Harvard Backs Parade Against Maroons, 61-0". Chicago Tribune. pp. II-1, II-4 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. Cy Peterman (October 22, 1939). "Gustafson Leads Penn To 22-7 Triumph: Quakers Rush From Behind, Beat Harvard". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 1S – via Newspapers.com.
  7. "Dartmouth Power Raps Harvard, 16-0". New York Daily News. October 29, 1939. p. C40 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. Bob Sylvester (November 5, 1939). "Princeton Beats Harvard, 9 to 6". New York Daily News. p. C38 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. "Harvard Routs Army, 15-0, in Second Half". New York Daily News. November 12, 1939. p. 92 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. "Harvard Leading, 33-0; Macdonald Star". The Boston Globe. November 18, 1939. p. 1. Retrieved January 22, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  11. "Harvard—". The Boston Globe. November 18, 1939. p. 7. Retrieved January 22, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  12. "Yale's 'Worst' Whips Harvard". New York Daily News. November 26, 1939. p. 39C – via Newspapers.com.
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