1896 Harvard Crimson football team

1896 Harvard Crimson football
1896 Harvard Crimson football
Conference	Independent
Record	7–4
Head coach	Bert Waters (1st season);
Captain	Edgar Wrightington
Home stadium	Soldiers' Field
	Seasons ← 1895 1897 →

1896 Eastern college football independents records
	Conf.			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Fordham		–		1	–	0	–	0
Lafayette		–		11	–	0	–	1
Princeton		–		10	–	0	–	1
Washington & Jefferson		–		8	–	0	–	1
Penn		–		14	–	1	–	0
Yale		–		13	–	1	–	0
Pittsburgh College		–		11	–	2	–	0
Buffalo		–		9	–	1	–	2
Villanova		–		10	–	4	–	0
Bucknell		–		5	–	2	–	1
Harvard		–		7	–	4	–	0
Boston College		–		5	–	3	–	0
Storrs		–		5	–	3	–	0
Cornell		–		5	–	3	–	1
Syracuse		–		5	–	3	–	2
Temple		–		3	–	2	–	0
Army		–		3	–	2	–	1
Rutgers		–		6	–	6	–	0
Carlisle		–		5	–	5	–	0
Holy Cross		–		2	–	2	–	2
Brown		–		4	–	5	–	1
Wesleyan		–		4	–	5	–	1
Dickinson		–		4	–	5	–	0
Frankin & Marshall		–		3	–	4	–	2
Geneva		–		3	–	4	–	0
Penn State		–		3	–	4	–	0
Colgate		–		3	–	4	–	1
Amherst		–		3	–	6	–	1
Western Univ. Penn.		–		3	–	6	–	0
Lehigh		–		2	–	5	–	0
Tufts		–		2	–	6	–	1
Swarthmore		–		2	–	6	–	0
New Hampshire		–		1	–	4	–	0
Drexel		–		1	–	5	–	0
Massachusetts		–		0	–	4	–	0
Rhode Island		–		0	–	4	–	0

The 1896 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1896 college football season. The Crimson finished with a 7–4 record under first-year head coach Bert Waters. The team won its first six games, but lost four of the final five games, including losses to rivals Princeton and Penn.^[1]^[2]

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 26		Williams	Soldiers' Field Boston, MA	W 6–0
October 3		Trinity (CT)	Soldiers' Field Boston, MA	W 34–0
October 7		Newton A.C.	Soldiers' Field Boston, MA	W 18–0
October 10		Wesleyan	Soldiers' Field Boston, MA	W 28–0
October 17	3:00 p.m.	Brown	Soldiers' Field Boston, MA	W 12–0	4,000	^[3]^[4]^[5]
October 24		at Cornell	Percy Field Ithaca, NY	W 13–4
October 28		vs. Harvard alumni		L 5–8
October 31		Carlisle	Soldiers' Field Boston, MA	W 4–0
November 7		Princeton	Soldiers' Field Boston, MA (rivalry)	L 0–12	20,000	^[6]
November 14		Boston Athletic Association	Soldiers' Field Boston, MA	L 6–8
November 21		at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	L 6–8
All times are in Eastern time

References

^ "1896 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.
^ "Plays Brown". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 17, 1896. p. 5. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Lost Her Chance". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 18, 1896. p. 2. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Brown Loses The Game". The New York Times. New York, New York. October 18, 1896. p. 6. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Princeton, 12; Harvard, 0". Boston Post. November 8, 1896. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.

[SR-1] "1896 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] "Plays Brown". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 17, 1896. p. 5. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .

[4] "Lost Her Chance". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 18, 1896. p. 2. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .

[5] "Brown Loses The Game". The New York Times. New York, New York. October 18, 1896. p. 6. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .

[6] "Princeton, 12; Harvard, 0". Boston Post. November 8, 1896. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.

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Harvard Crimson football
Venues	Boston Baseball Grounds (1877–1881) Holmes Field (1881–1882, 1888) Jarvis Field (1883–1893) Soldier's Field (1894–1903) Harvard Stadium (1903–present)
Bowls and rivalries	1920 Rose Bowl Dartmouth Penn Princeton Yale
Culture and lore	"Ten Thousand Men of Harvard" 1874 McGill game 1921 Centre game 1968 Yale game (Harvard Beats Yale 29–29) 2004 Harvard–Yale prank
People	Head coaches NFL draftees
Seasons	1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
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