1884 Harvard Crimson football team

1884 Harvard Crimson football
Conference	Independent
Record	7–4
Head coach	None
Home stadium	Jarvis Field
Seasons ← 1883 1886 →

1884 college football records
v t e	Conf
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

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]

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 11	MIT	Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA	W 47–5		^[5]
October 22	Penn	Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA (rivalry)	L 0–4	300–400	^[6]
October 25	atMIT	Union Grounds Boston, MA	W 42–0	200	^[7]
October 31	Trinity (CT)	Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA	W 67–0		^[8]
November 1	atWesleyan	Hartford Ball Club Grounds Hartford, CT	L 0–16	500	^[9]
November 6	Williams	Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA	W 23–0	400	^[10]
November 8	atOttawa	Rideau Hall grounds Ottawa, ON	W 20–6		^[11]
November 10	atDartmouth	Hanover, NH (rivalry)	W 29–0		^[12]
November 12	Tufts	Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA	W 51–0	200–300	^[13]
November 15	Princeton	Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA (rivalry)	L 6–36	2,000–3,000	^[14]^[15]
November 22	atYale	Yale Field New Haven, CT (rivalry)	L 0–52	2,400–2,500	^[16]^[17]

^ "1884 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.

^ "Princeton's Eleven Wins". The New York Times. November 16, 1884. p. 7.

^ "The Harvards Badly Beaten". The New York Times. November 23, 1884. p. 2.

^ "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.

^ "Harvard Beaten: The University of Pennsylvania Eleven Inflicts the First Defeat of the Season". The Boston Globe. October 23, 1884. p. 13 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.

^ "Harvard Foot Ball Men Win: The Technology Eleven Easily Defeated on the Union Grounds". The Boston Globe. October 26, 1884. p. 6 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.

^ "Goals and Touchdowns Scored with Ease by Harvard Against Trinity". The Boston Globe. November 1, 1884. p. 13 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.

^ "Football - Wesleyans, 16; Harvards, 0". The Boston Globe. November 2, 1884. p. 6 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.

^ "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.

^ "Harvard Wins in Canada". The Sun (New York). November 14, 1884. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.

^ "Harvard Blanks Dartmouth at Foot Ball". Boston Daily Globe. November 11, 1884. p. 5 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.

^ "By a Large Majority Harvard Foot Ball Players Beat Tuftonians". The Boston Globe. November 13, 1884. p. 11 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.

^ "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)

^ "Princeton's Eleven Wins". The New York Times. November 16, 1884. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.(attendance reported as 3,000)

^ "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)

^ "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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