1900 Harvard Crimson football team

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1900 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record10–1
Head coach
CaptainCharles Dudley Daly
Home stadiumSoldiers' Field
Seasons
← 1899
1901 →
1900 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale     12 0 0
Penn     12 1 0
Harvard     10 1 0
Cornell     10 2 0
Geneva     5 1 1
Lafayette     9 2 0
Syracuse     7 2 1
Princeton     8 3 0
Drexel     5 2 0
Fordham     3 1 1
Army     7 3 1
Brown     7 3 1
Columbia     7 3 1
Villanova     5 2 2
Washington & Jefferson     6 3 1
Swarthmore     6 3 2
Holy Cross     5 3 1
Carlisle     6 4 1
Buffalo     3 2 2
Dickinson     5 4 0
Western Univ. of Penn     5 4 0
Bucknell     4 4 1
Pittsburgh College     3 3 1
Rutgers     4 4 0
Vermont     4 4 1
Lehigh     5 6 0
Frankin & Marshall     4 5 0
Temple     3 4 1
Penn State     4 6 1
Amherst     4 7 1
Dartmouth     2 4 2
NYU     3 6 1
Tufts     3 6 1
Wesleyan     3 6 1
New Hampshire     1 5 1
Colgate     2 8 0
CCNY     0 1 0

The 1900 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1900 college football season. In its second season under head coach Benjamin Dibblee, Harvard compiled a 10–1 record, shut out seven of 11 opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 205 to 44. The 1900 team won its first 10 games, but closed the season with a 28–0 loss against rival Yale.[1][2]

Walter Camp selected three Harvard players as first-team selections to his 1900 College Football All-America Team. They were ends John Hallowell and Dave Campbell and quarterback Charles Dudley Daly.[3]

Schedule[edit]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29 WesleyanW 24–01,000[4]
October 3 Williams
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 12–01,000[5]
October 6 Bowdoin
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 12–02,500[6]
October 10 Amherst
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 18–0800[7]
October 13 Columbia
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 24–08,000[8]
October 17 Bates
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 41–01,500[9]
October 20at ArmyW 29–05,000[10]
October 27 Carlisle
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 17–515,000[11]
November 3 Penn
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 17–517,000[12]
November 10 Brown
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 11–68,000[13]
November 24at Yale L 0–2820,000[14][15]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "1900 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. ^ "Walter Camp's 1900 All America Selections". Capital Times. November 23, 1930.
  4. ^ "Harvard Defeats Wesleyan 24 to 0". Boston Post. September 30, 1900. p. 9 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  5. ^ "Harvard Defeated Williams 12 to 0, But the Men From Berkshire Outplayed the 'Varsity". Boston Post. October 4, 1900. p. 3 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  6. ^ "Scores Twice: Harvard Makes Only 12 Points Against Bowdoin". The Boston Globe. October 7, 1900. p. 5 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  7. ^ "Football Straws: Harvard Shows Up Poorly Against Amherst". The Boston Globe. October 11, 1900. p. 5 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  8. ^ "Harvard Beats Columbia, 24 to 0". Boston Post. October 14, 1900. p. 5 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  9. ^ "Round the Ends: Harvard Runs Up Score Against Bates". The Boston Globe. October 18, 1900. p. 5 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  10. ^ "Harvard, 29; West Point, 0: Crimson Eleven Wins Easily Before 5000 Spectators". Boston Post. October 21, 1900. p. 9 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  11. ^ "Harvard Beats Indians, 17 to 5". Boston Post. October 28, 1900. p. 9 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  12. ^ "Details of Harvard Victory: U. of P.'s "Guards Back" Easily Broken, The Result Was Never in Doubt". The Boston Globe. November 4, 1900. p. 24 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  13. ^ "Harvard Beats Brown 11 to 6, But Barely Escapes Disaster". Boston Post. November 11, 1900. p. 9 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  14. ^ "Yale 28, Harvard 0: Blues Outclass Crimsons in All Departments of Football". The Boston Globe. November 25, 1900. pp. 1, 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "Yale Football Champions of 1900: Harvard Beaten in the Annual Game at New Haven". The New York Times. November 25, 1900. pp. 1–2 – via Newspapers.com.