1898 Harvard Crimson football
National champion (Billingsley, Helms, Houlgate, NCF)
ConferenceIndependent
Record11–0
Head coach
Home stadiumSoldiers' Field
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1898 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard   –   11 – 0 – 0
Drexel   –   7 – 0 – 0
Princeton   –   11 – 0 – 1
Penn   –   12 – 1 – 0
Buffalo   –   8 – 1 – 0
Cornell   –   10 – 2 – 0
Swarthmore   –   9 – 2 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   9 – 2 – 0
Yale   –   9 – 2 – 0
Dickinson   –   8 – 2 – 0
Syracuse   –   8 – 2 – 1
Wesleyan   –   7 – 3 – 0
Western Penn.   –   5 – 2 – 1
Brown   –   6 – 4 – 0
Carlisle   –   6 – 4 – 0
Penn State   –   6 – 4 – 0
Pittsburgh College   –   6 – 4 – 1
Army   –   3 – 2 – 1
Vermont   –   3 – 2 – 1
Holy Cross   –   5 – 4 – 1
Bucknell   –   4 – 4 – 3
Fordham   –   1 – 1 – 2
Frankin & Marshall   –   4 – 4 – 2
New Hampshire   –   4 – 4 – 0
Amherst   –   4 – 5 – 1
Villanova   –   2 – 4 – 1
Lehigh   –   3 – 6 – 1
Boston College   –   2 – 5 – 1
Colgate   –   2 – 5 – 1
Temple   –   2 – 5 – 0
Lafayette   –   3 – 8 – 0
NYU   –   1 – 3 – 0
Rutgers   –   1 – 6 – 1
Tufts   –   1 – 9 – 0
Geneva   –   0 – 6 – 1

The 1898 Harvard Crimson football team was an American football team that represented Harvard University as an independent during the 1898 college football season. In their second year under head coach William Cameron Forbes, the Crimson compiled an 11–0 record, shut out seven of eleven opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 257 to 19.[1]

There was no contemporaneous system in 1898 for determining a national champion. However, Harvard was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and National Championship Foundation. Princeton, which finished the 1898 season 11–0–1, was named champion by one selector, Parke H. Davis.[2]: 112–114 

Three Harvard players were consensus first-team selections on the 1898 All-American football team: quarterback Charles Dudley Daly; halfback Benjamin Dibblee; and end John Hallowell.[3] Other notable players included fullback Bill Reid; tackles Percy Haughton and Malcolm Donald; guard Walter Boal; halfback Leicester Warren; center Percy Malcolm Jaffrey; and end Francis Douglas Cochran. Haughton and Daly were later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.[4][5]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 13:00 p.m.Williams
W 11–01,000[6][7][8]
October 54:00 p.m.Bowdoin
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 28–6200[9][10]
October 83:00 p.m.Dartmouth
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 21–0[11][12]
October 124:00 p.m.Amherst
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 53–2[13][14]
October 15at Army
W 28–0[15]
October 19Newtowne Athletic Association
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 22–0[16]
October 22Chicago Athletic Association
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 39–02,000[17]
October 29Carlisle
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 11–5[18]
November 5Penn
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 10–0[19]
November 123:00 p.m.Brown
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 17–6[20][21]
November 19at Yale
W 17–017,500[22][23]

References

  1. ^ "1898 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ 2020 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision Records (PDF). Indianapolis: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. July 2020. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 1, 2020. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
  3. ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  4. ^ "Percy Haughton". National Football Foundation. Retrieved March 26, 2022.
  5. ^ "Charles Daly". National Football Foundation. Retrieved March 26, 2022.
  6. ^ "Games All Around". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 1, 1898. p. 4. Retrieved March 12, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  7. ^ "Small Scores". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 2, 1898. p. 1. Retrieved March 12, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  8. ^ "Small Scores (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 2, 1898. p. 2. Retrieved March 12, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  9. ^ "Score On Harvard". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 6, 1898. p. 5. Retrieved March 12, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  10. ^ "Harvard Braces: Fast Work in Spite of Warm Weather". The Boston Globe. October 5, 1898. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Day of Football: Harvard vs Dartmouth on Soldiers Field". The Boston Globe. October 8, 1898. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Hard, Fast Game". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 9, 1898. p. 2. Retrieved March 12, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  13. ^ "Getting Faster". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 12, 1898. p. 3. Retrieved March 12, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  14. ^ "Harvard Piles Up Points, But Has to Make a Safety". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 13, 1898. p. 4. Retrieved March 12, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  15. ^ "Fierce Rushes: West Point Line Unable to Withstand The Harvard Onslaught". The Boston Globe. October 16, 1898. pp. 1, 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ "Wet Gridirons: Harvard Scores 22 Points Against Newtowne A.A." The Boston Globe. October 20, 1898. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ^ "Dashing Play: Harvard Sets Too Fast a Pace For Chicago A.A." The Boston Globe. October 23, 1898. pp. 1, 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ^ "From 20-Yard Line Indian Quarterback Drops Goal From the Field". The Boston Globe. October 30, 1898. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ^ "Harvard Wins! Ten Points Scored by Crimson and None by Pennsylvania". The Boston Post. November 6, 1898. pp. 1, 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. ^ "Game At 3 O'clock Today". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 12, 1898. p. 5. Retrieved March 12, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  21. ^ "Harvard Weak". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 13, 1898. p. 24. Retrieved March 12, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  22. ^ "Harvard Supreme: Yale Lowers Her Colors to the Invincible Crimson Eleven". The Boston Globe. November 20, 1898. pp. 1, 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  23. ^ "Harvard Is The Victor". The New York Times. November 20, 1898. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.


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