1884 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–4
Head coach
  • None
Home stadiumJarvis Field
Seasons
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1884 college football records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton   –   9 – 0 – 1
Yale   –   8 – 0 – 1
Michigan   –   2 – 0 – 0
Williams   –   2 – 0 – 0
Navy   –   1 – 0 – 0
Wabash   –   1 – 0 – 0
Penn   –   5 – 1 – 1
Fordham   –   5 – 1 – 0
Harvard   –   7 – 4 – 0
Wesleyan   –   3 – 2 – 0
Butler   –   1 – 1 – 0
Columbia   –   1 – 1 – 0
Rutgers   –   3 – 4 – 0
Stevens   –   4 – 5 – 0
Dartmouth   –   1 – 2 – 1
Tufts   –   2 – 4 – 1
Massachusetts   –   1 – 2 – 0
Lafayette   –   2 – 5 – 0
Johns Hopkins   –   1 – 3 – 0
Albion   –   0 – 1 – 0
CCNY   –   0 – 1 – 0
DePauw   –   0 – 1 – 0
Olivet   –   0 – 2 – 0
Amherst   –   0 – 3 – 0
Lehigh   –   0 – 4 – 0

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

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 11 MIT
W 47–5 [5]
October 22 Penn
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA (rivalry)
L 0–4300–400[6]
October 25at MIT
W 42–0200[7]
October 31 Trinity (CT)
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA
W 67–0 [8]
November 1at Wesleyan
L 0–16500[9]
November 6 Williams
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA
W 23–0400[10]
November 8at Ottawa
W 20–6 [11]
November 10at 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 22at Yale
L 0–522,400–2,500[16][17]

References

  1. ^ "1884 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. ^ "Princeton's Eleven Wins". The New York Times. November 16, 1884. p. 7.
  4. ^ "The Harvards Badly Beaten". The New York Times. November 23, 1884. p. 2.
  5. ^ "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.
  6. ^ "Harvard Beaten: The University of Pennsylvania Eleven Inflicts the First Defeat of the Season". The Boston Globe. October 23, 1884. p. 13 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  7. ^ "Harvard Foot Ball Men Win: The Technology Eleven Easily Defeated on the Union Grounds". The Boston Globe. October 26, 1884. p. 6 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  8. ^ "Goals and Touchdowns Scored with Ease by Harvard Against Trinity". The Boston Globe. November 1, 1884. p. 13 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  9. ^ "Football - Wesleyans, 16; Harvards, 0". The Boston Globe. November 2, 1884. p. 6 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  10. ^ "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.
  11. ^ "Harvard Wins in Canada". The Sun (New York). November 14, 1884. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Harvard Blanks Dartmouth at Foot Ball". Boston Daily Globe. November 11, 1884. p. 5 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  13. ^ "By a Large Majority Harvard Foot Ball Players Beat Tuftonians". The Boston Globe. November 13, 1884. p. 11 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  14. ^ "The Season of Slogging Well Begun With Princeton's Victory at Harvard". The Boston Glove. November 16, 1884. p. 3 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.(attendance reported as 2,000)
  15. ^ "Princeton's Eleven Wins". The New York Times. November 16, 1884. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.(attendance reported as 3,000)
  16. ^ "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.(attendance 2,400)
  17. ^ "Fifty-Two To Nothing Tells The Story of Harvard's Defeat at New Haven". The Boston Globe. November 23, 1884. p. 1 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.(attendance 2,500)


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