1940 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–2–3
Head coach
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
Seasons
← 1939
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1940 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 5 Boston College   –   11 – 0 – 0
Duquesne   –   7 – 1 – 0
No. 14 Penn   –   6 – 1 – 1
Penn State   –   6 – 1 – 1
No. 12 Fordham   –   7 – 2 – 0
No. 15 Cornell   –   6 – 2 – 0
La Salle   –   6 – 2 – 0
Princeton   –   5 – 2 – 1
Columbia   –   5 – 2 – 2
Brown   –   6 – 3 – 1
Bucknell   –   4 – 2 – 2
Boston University   –   5 – 3 – 0
Colgate   –   5 – 3 – 0
Hofstra   –   4 – 3 – 0
Harvard   –   3 – 2 – 3
Dartmouth   –   5 – 4 – 0
Temple   –   4 – 4 – 1
Tufts   –   4 – 4 – 0
Vermont   –   4 – 4 – 0
Villanova   –   4 – 5 – 0
Pittsburgh   –   3 – 4 – 1
Syracuse   –   3 – 4 – 1
Buffalo   –   3 – 5 – 0
Carnegie Tech   –   3 – 5 – 0
Manhattan   –   3 – 6 – 0
Providence   –   3 – 6 – 0
NYU   –   2 – 7 – 0
Yale   –   1 – 7 – 0
Army   –   1 – 7 – 1
CCNY   –   1 – 5 – 1
Massachusetts State   –   1 – 8 – 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1940 Harvard Crimson football team was an American football team that represented Harvard University as an independent during the 1940 college football season. In its sixth season under head coach Dick Harlow, the team compiled a 3–2–3 record and outscored opponents by a total of 77 to 49.[1][2]

Harvard was ranked at No. 51 (out of 697 college football teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score system for 1940.[3]

The team played its home games at Harvard Stadium in Boston.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 5Amherst
W 13–015,000[4]
October 12Michigan
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
L 0–2626,315[5][6]
October 19Army
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
T 6–630,000[7]
October 26Dartmouth
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
L 6–735,000[8]
November 2Princeton
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
T 0–015,000[9]
November 9at No. 15 Penn
T 10–1035,000[10]
November 16Brown
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 14–0[11]
November 23at Yale
W 28–047,000[12]
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

  1. ^ "1940 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved April 11, 2020.
  2. ^ "Harvard Football Yearly Records". GoCrimson.com. Harvard University. Archived from the original on August 14, 2014. Retrieved June 25, 2019.
  3. ^ Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 19, 1940). "Final 1940 Litkenhous Ratings". The Boston Globe. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Harvard Defeats Amherst, 13 to 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 6, 1940. p. 2S – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Michigan Topples Harvard by 26 to 0: Harmon Tallies Thrice, Kicks Two Points--Also Passes to Kromer for Touchdown". The New York Times. October 16, 1940.
  6. ^ "Michigan and Harmon Beat Harvard, 26-0". Chicago Tribune. October 13, 1940. p. 2-1.
  7. ^ "Harvard Scores Late, Ties Army, 6-6". New York Daily News. October 20, 1940. p. 97 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ McGowen, Roscoe (October 27, 1940). "Dartmouth Rally Nips Harvard, 7-6". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  9. ^ "Underdog Harvard Eleven, Aided By Rain, Holds Princeton To Scoreless Deadlock: Tigers Fail To Score On Game's Only Chance". The Hartford Courant. November 3, 1940. p. IV-1 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ Cy Peterman (November 10, 1940). "Harvard Ties Penn, 10-10: Crimson Holds Favored Rival To Draw Before 35,000 Fans". The Philadelphia Inquirer. pp. S1, S7 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "14-0 Clash To Harvard: Crimson Gridders Register Win Over Brown". Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. November 17, 1940. p. 3B – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ Jerry Jerome (November 24, 1940). "Harvard Crushes Yale, 28 to 0". New York Daily news. p. 89 – via Newspapers.com.
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