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1895 Harvard Crimson football team

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1895 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–2–1
Head coach
Home stadiumSoldiers' Field
Seasons
← 1894
1896 →
1895 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn     14 0 0
Yale     13 0 2
Princeton     10 1 1
Washington & Jefferson     6 1 1
Harvard     8 2 1
Lafayette     6 2 0
Syracuse     6 2 2
Army     5 2 0
Bucknell     5 2 0
Colgate     4 2 0
Swarthmore     7 4 1
Tufts     8 5 0
Villanova     4 2 0
Wesleyan     6 3 0
Amherst     6 5 0
Brown     7 6 1
Carlisle     4 4 0
Drexel     3 3 1
Penn State     2 2 3
Cornell     3 4 1
Rutgers     3 4 0
New Hampshire     2 3 1
Frankin & Marshall     3 5 1
Boston College     2 4 2
Lehigh     3 6 0
CCNY     2 5 1
Buffalo     1 4 2
Temple     1 4 1
MIT     1 4 0
Trinity (CT)     1 4 0
Massachusetts     1 5 0
Western Univ. Penn.     1 6 0
Geneva     0 5 0

The 1895 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1895 college football season. The Crimson finished with an 8–2–1 record. First-year head coach Robert Emmons led the team from October 21 to November 3.[1] Following the team's 12–4 loss to Princeton, assistant Lorin F. Deland took over as head coach.[2] He led the team to a 1–1–1 record in their last three games, including a 17–14 loss to Penn, the closest the undefeated Quakers came to defeat that year.[3]

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2 DartmouthW 4–03,000[4]
October 5 Amherst
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 24–0
October 9 Phillips Exeter
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 42–0
October 12at ArmyW 4–0
October 16 Williams
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 32–0
October 19 Brown
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 26–65,000[5][6]
October 26 Cornell
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 25–0
November 2at PrincetonL 4–12
November 9 Michigan
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 4–06,000
November 16 Boston Athletic Association
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
T 0–0
November 23 Penn
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
L 14–17[7]

References

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  1. ^ "Emmons to coach". The Boston Daily Globe. October 22, 1895.
  2. ^ "Bracing Harvard's Team". The New York Times. November 12, 1895.
  3. ^ Featherweight (April 5, 1896). "Coach Deland Resigns". The Boston Daily Globe.
  4. ^ "Harvard's Close Call". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. September 29, 1895. p. 1. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  5. ^ "Brown Did It Again". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 20, 1895. p. 1. Retrieved March 9, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  6. ^ "Brown Did It (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 20, 1895. p. 2. Retrieved March 9, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  7. ^ "U. of P. 17, Harvard 14: Fought to the Last; Although Surely Beaten, Harvard Played Pluckily On". The Boston Globe. November 24, 1895. pp. 1, 2 – via Newspapers.com.