1884 Harvard Crimson football team American college football season
The 1884 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1884 college football season . They finished with a 7–4 record.[ 1] [ 2]
On November 15, Harvard lost to Princeton by a 36–6 score before 3,000 spectators at Jarvis Field in Cambridge.[ 3]
On November 22, Harvard lost to Yale by a 51–0 score before 2,400 spectators at the new athletic grounds in New Haven. The game was played in two halves of 45 minutes with a 15-minute intermission.[ 4]
Schedule
Date Opponent Site Result Attendance Source October 11 MIT W 47–5 [ 5] October 22 Penn Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA (rivalry ) L 0–4300–400 [ 6] October 25 at MIT W 42–0200 [ 7] October 31 Trinity (CT) Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA W 67–0 [ 8] November 1 at Wesleyan L 0–16500 [ 9] November 6 Williams Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA W 23–0400 [ 10] November 8 at Ottawa W 20–6 [ 11] November 10 at Dartmouth Hanover, NH (rivalry ) W 29–0 [ 12] November 12 Tufts Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA W 51–0200–300 [ 13] November 15 Princeton Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA (rivalry ) L 6–362,000–3,000 [ 14] [ 15] November 22 at Yale L 0–522,400–2,500 [ 16] [ 17]
References
^ "1884 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 .^ "Princeton's Eleven Wins" . The New York Times . November 16, 1884. p. 7.^ "The Harvards Badly Beaten" . The New York Times . November 23, 1884. p. 2.^ "Tackling and Checking: Harvard Beats Technology at Foot Ball by a Score of 47 Points to 5" . The Boston Globe . October 12, 1884. p. 2 – via NewspaperArchive .^ "Harvard Beaten: The University of Pennsylvania Eleven Inflicts the First Defeat of the Season" . The Boston Globe . October 23, 1884. p. 13 – via NewspaperArchive .^ "Harvard Foot Ball Men Win: The Technology Eleven Easily Defeated on the Union Grounds" . The Boston Globe . October 26, 1884. p. 6 – via NewspaperArchive .^ "Goals and Touchdowns Scored with Ease by Harvard Against Trinity" . The Boston Globe . November 1, 1884. p. 13 – via NewspaperArchive .^ "Football - Wesleyans, 16; Harvards, 0" . The Boston Globe . November 2, 1884. p. 6 – via NewspaperArchive .^ "Practicing With Williams: Harvard Wins at Foot Ball by a Score of 23 to Nothing" . The Boston Globe . November 7, 1884. p. 5 – via NewspaperArchive .^ "Harvard Wins in Canada" . The Sun (New York) . November 14, 1884. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com .^ "Harvard Blanks Dartmouth at Foot Ball". Boston Daily Globe . November 11, 1884. p. 5 – via NewspaperArchive . ^ "By a Large Majority Harvard Foot Ball Players Beat Tuftonians" . The Boston Globe . November 13, 1884. p. 11 – via NewspaperArchive .^ "The Season of Slogging Well Begun With Princeton's Victory at Harvard" . The Boston Glove . November 16, 1884. p. 3 – via NewspaperArchive .^ "Princeton's Eleven Wins" . The New York Times . November 16, 1884. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com .^ "The Harvards Badly Beaten: The Yale Football Team Whip Them by a Score of 52 to 0" . The New York Times . November 23, 1884. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com .^ "Fifty-Two To Nothing Tells The Story of Harvard's Defeat at New Haven". The Boston Globe . November 23, 1884. p. 1 – via NewspaperArchive .
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