1902 Harvard Crimson football team
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
American college football season
| 1902 Harvard Crimson football | |
|---|---|
| Conference | Independent |
| Record | 11–1 |
| Head coach |
|
| Home stadium | Soldiers' Field |
Seasons | |
| Conf. | Overall | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||
| Ursinus | – | 9 | – | 0 | – | 0 | ||||
| Yale | – | 11 | – | 0 | – | 1 | ||||
| Geneva | – | 7 | – | 0 | – | 0 | ||||
| Harvard | – | 11 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||
| Princeton | – | 8 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||
| Army | – | 6 | – | 1 | – | 1 | ||||
| Frankin & Marshall | – | 7 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||
| Dartmouth | – | 6 | – | 2 | – | 1 | ||||
| Holy Cross | – | 6 | – | 2 | – | 1 | ||||
| Syracuse | – | 6 | – | 2 | – | 1 | ||||
| Carlisle | – | 8 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||
| Cornell | – | 8 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||
| Lafayette | – | 8 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||
| Amherst | – | 7 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||
| Penn State | – | 7 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||
| Penn | – | 9 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||
| Lehigh | – | 7 | – | 3 | – | 1 | ||||
| Vermont | – | 5 | – | 3 | – | 2 | ||||
| Colgate | – | 5 | – | 3 | – | 1 | ||||
| NYU | – | 5 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||
| Bucknell | – | 6 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||
| Washington & Jefferson | – | 6 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||
| Columbia | – | 6 | – | 4 | – | 1 | ||||
| Springfield Training School | – | 3 | – | 2 | – | 1 | ||||
| Villanova | – | 4 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||
| Brown | – | 5 | – | 4 | – | 1 | ||||
| Swarthmore | – | 6 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||
| Western U. of Penn. | – | 5 | – | 6 | – | 1 | ||||
| New Hampshire | – | 2 | – | 3 | – | 1 | ||||
| Buffalo | – | 3 | – | 5 | – | 1 | ||||
| Tufts | – | 4 | – | 6 | – | 1 | ||||
| Dickinson | – | 4 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||
| Fordham | – | 2 | – | 4 | – | 1 | ||||
| Wesleyan | – | 3 | – | 6 | – | 1 | ||||
| Rutgers | – | 3 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||
| Navy | – | 2 | – | 7 | – | 1 | ||||
| Drexel | – | 1 | – | 4 | – | 1 | ||||
| Temple | – | 1 | – | 4 | – | 1 | ||||
| Pittsburgh College | – | 1 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||
| Boston College | – | 0 | – | 8 | – | 0 | ||||
The 1902 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1902 college football season. The Crimson finished with an 11–1 record under first-year head coach John Wells Farley. The 1902 team won its first eleven games by a combined 184–23 score. It then closed the season with a 23–0 loss against rival Yale.[1] [2] Walter Camp selected two Harvard players as first-team selections to his 1902 College Football All-America Team. They were end Edward Bowditch and fullback Thomas Graydon.[3]
Schedule
[edit ]| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 27 | Williams | W 11–0 | 1,500 | [4] | |
| October 1 | Bowdoin |
| W 17–6 | 500 | [5] |
| October 4 | Bates |
| W 23–0 | 4,500–5,000 | [6] |
| October 8 | Amherst |
| W 6–0 | 4,000 | [7] |
| October 11 | Maine |
| W 22–0 | > 5,000 | [8] |
| October 15 | Wesleyan |
| W 35–5 | 5,000 | [9] |
| October 18 | at Army | W 14–6 | [10] | ||
| October 25 | Brown |
| W 6–0 | >20,000 | [11] |
| November 1 | Carlisle |
| W 23–0 | 16,000 | [12] |
| November 8 | Penn |
| W 11–0 | > 16,000 | [13] |
| November 15 | Dartmouth |
| W 16–6 | 10,000 | [14] |
| November 22 | at Yale | L 0–23 | 30,000 | [15] |
References
[edit ]- ^ "1902 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
- ^ "Harvard Football Yearly Records". GoCrimson.com. Harvard University. Archived from the original on August 14, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
- ^ Michael MacCambridge, Dan Jenkins (2005). ESPN College Football Encyclopedia: The Complete History of College Football from 1869 to the Present. p. 1145.
- ^ "Only 11 Points: Harvard Plays Poorly Against Williams Team". The Boston Globe. September 28, 1902. p. 1 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
- ^ "Small Colleges Score on Harvard and Yale". Boston Post. October 2, 1902. p. 3 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
- ^ "Harvard Defeats Bates 23 to 0". The Boston Globe. October 5, 1902. p. 10 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
- ^ "Harvard Barely Beats Amherst". The Boston Globe. October 9, 1902. p. 5 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
- ^ "With Many Subs Harvard Defeats University of Maine 22 to 0". The Boston Globe. October 12, 1902. p. 9 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
- ^ "Harvard Varsity Overwhelms Wesleyan in the First Half". The Boston Globe. October 16, 1902. p. 3 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
- ^ "Harvard Beat Cadets". The Boston Globe. October 19, 1902. p. 5 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
- ^ "Harvard 6, Brown 0: Providence Gives Players Crimson a Bad Scare". Boston Post. October 26, 1902. p. 1 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
- ^ "Harvard 23, Carlisle 0: Unusually Spectacular Football on Soldiers Field". The Boston Globe. November 2, 1902. p. 1 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
- ^ "Penn Puts Up a Plucky Fight: Harvard Wins, But Only by a Score of 11 to 0". The Boston Globe. November 9, 1902. p. 1 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
- ^ "Dartmouth Scares Harvard". The Boston Globe. November 16, 1902. pp. 1, 5 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
- ^ "Yale 23, Harvard 0: Crimson Outclassed at Every Stage; 30,000 Saw Game". Boston Post. November 23, 1902. p. 1 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
Stub icon
This college football 1902 season article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.