1916 Harvard Crimson football team

The 1916 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1916 college football season. The Crimson finished with a 7–3 record under ninth-year head coach Percy Haughton.[1][2] Walter Camp selected only one Harvard player, guard Harrie Dadmun, as a first-team member of his 1916 College Football All-America Team.[3]

1916 Harvard Crimson football
Harvard-Brown football game of 1916
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–3
Head coach
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
Seasons
← 1915
1917 →
1916 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Army     9 0 0
Pittsburgh     8 0 0
Brown     8 1 0
Colgate     8 1 0
Yale     8 1 0
Fordham     6 1 1
Swarthmore     6 1 1
Penn State     8 2 0
Washington & Jefferson     8 2 0
Boston College     6 2 0
Cornell     6 2 0
Princeton     6 2 0
Lehigh     6 2 1
Dartmouth     5 2 2
Harvard     7 3 0
Penn     7 3 1
Temple     3 1 2
Tufts     5 3 0
Carnegie Tech     4 3 0
Rutgers     3 2 2
NYU     4 3 1
Syracuse     5 4 0
Holy Cross     4 5 0
Vermont     4 5 0
Rhode Island State     3 4 1
Geneva     2 5 2
Carlisle     1 3 1
Lafayette     2 6 1
Bucknell     3 9 0
Columbia     1 5 2
Franklin & Marshall     1 7 0
Villanova     1 8 0

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 23 ColbyW 10–0
September 30 Bates
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 26–0
October 7 Tufts
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
L 3–7
October 14 North Carolina
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 21–0
October 21 Massachusetts
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 47–0
October 28 Cornell
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 23–0
November 4 Virginia
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 51–0[4]
November 11 Princeton
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 3–0
November 18 Brown
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
L 0–21
November 25at Yale L 3–6[5]

References

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  1. ^ "1916 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. ^ "Three Colgate Men Picked By Camp for All-American Team". The Syracuse Herald. December 26, 1916.
  4. ^ "Harvard attack swamps Virginia". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 5, 1916. Retrieved July 2, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Harvard Falls Before Fierce Rush of Yale". The New York Times. November 26, 1916. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.