1941 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIvy League
Record5–2–1 (4–2 Ivy)
Head coach
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
Seasons
← 1940
1942 →
1941 Ivy League football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 15 Penn $ 5 – 0 – 0 7 – 1 – 0
Columbia 3 – 1 – 0 3 – 5 – 0
Harvard 4 – 2 – 0 5 – 2 – 1
Cornell 3 – 2 – 0 5 – 3 – 0
Dartmouth 2 – 2 – 0 5 – 4 – 0
Brown 1 – 2 – 0 5 – 4 – 0
Princeton 1 – 4 – 0 2 – 6 – 0
Yale 0 – 6 – 0 1 – 7 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1941 Harvard Crimson football team was an American football team that represented Harvard University in the Ivy League during the 1941 college football season. In its seventh season under head coach Dick Harlow, the team compiled a 5–2–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 70 to 43. The team was ranked No. 17 in the AP Poll released on November 10, 1941, and No. 19 in the poll released on November 24, 1941.[1] The team was unranked in the final AP Poll but was ranked at No. 32 (out of 681 teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1941.[2]

Harvard's Endicott Peabody won the 1941 Knute Rockne Memorial Trophy as the best collegiate lineman and was the only player to be unanimously selected by all nine official selectors as a first-team player on the 1941 All-America team.[3] Peabody and end Loren MacKinney were also selected by the Associated Press as first-team players on the 1941 All-Eastern football team.[4] Peabody was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame and served as Governor of Massachusetts.

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 4at Penn
L 0–1940,000[5][6]
October 11Cornell
L 0–720,000[7]
October 18Dartmouth
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 7–037,000[8]
October 25 No. 5 Navy*
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 20–640,000[9]
November 1at Princeton
W 6–418,000[10]
November 8 No. 11 Army*
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 20–653,000[11]
November 15BrownNo. 17
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 23–720,000[12]
November 22Yale
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 14–053,000[13]
  • *Non-conference game
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

  1. ^ "1941 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved September 11, 2019.
  2. ^ Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 26, 1941). "Gophers Grid Kings Over 6-Year Span: Tennessee 2d, Pitt 3d Over Period Litkenhous Ratins Are Published". The Courier-Journal. p. Sports 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 8. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  4. ^ "MacKinney and Peabody on A.P. Eastern Eleven". The Boston Daily Globe. December 5, 1941. p. 28 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ Fred Byrod (October 5, 1941). "Penn Power Crushes Harvard, 19 to 0: 50,000 Fans See Stiff, Odell, Brundage Star". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 1S – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Penn Batters Harvard, 19-0". New York Daily News. October 5, 1941. p. 88 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Pass Wins for Cornell, 7-0, Over Harvard". New York Daily News. October 12, 1941. p. 97 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Harvard Upsets Dartmouth, 7-0". New York Daily News. October 19, 1941. p. 41C – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Navy tied by Harvard". Pittsburgh Press. United Press. October 26, 1941. p. 11, part 3.
  10. ^ "Harvard Wins, 6-5 On 87-Yard Run". New York Daily News. November 2, 1941. p. 41C – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Harvard uncovers scoring punch to kayo Army, 20-7". Pittsburgh. United Press. November 9, 1941. p. 14, part 3.
  12. ^ "Harvard Rolls Over Brown Bear, 23-7". New York Daily News. November 16, 1941. p. 100 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Harvard Beats Back Yale, 14-0". New York Daily News. November 23, 1941. p. 96 – via Newspapers.com.
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