2018 Harvard Crimson football team

2018 Ivy League football standings
	$ – Conference champion; Rankings from STATS Poll

Harvard Crimson football
2018 Harvard Crimson football
Conference	Ivy League
2018 record	6–4 (4–3 Ivy)
Head coach	Tim Murphy (25th season)
Offensive coordinator	Joel Lamb (13th season)
Defensive coordinator	Scott Larkee (10th season)
Home stadium	Harvard Stadium; (Capacity: 30,323)

The 2018 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University during the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season as a member of the Ivy League. They were led by 25th-year head coach Tim Murphy and played their home games at Harvard Stadium. They finished the season 6–4 overall and 4–3 in Ivy League play to place third.

Previous season

The Crimson finished the 2017 season 5–5 overall and 3–4 in Ivy League play, to place in tie for fifth place.

Schedule

The 2018 schedule consisted of six home games and four away games. The Crimson hosted Ivy League foes Princeton, Columbia, and Yale for the 135th edition of The Game, and traveled to Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, and Penn.

Harvard's non-conference opponents were San Diego of the Pioneer Football League, Rhode Island of the Colonial Athletic Association, and Holy Cross of the Patriot League.[1]

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 15	Noon	San Diego*	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	ESPN+	W 36–14	8,709
September 21	7:00 p.m.	at Brown	Brown Stadium Providence, RI	ESPNU	W 31–17	9,309
September 28	7:00 p.m.	No. 22 Rhode Island*	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	ESPN+	L 16–23	9,123
October 6	1:30 p.m.	at Cornell	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	ESPN+	L 24–28	8,040
October 12	7:00 p.m.	Holy Cross*	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	ESPN+	W 33–31	10,056
October 20	Noon	No. 23 Princeton	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	ESPN+	L 21–29	10,876
October 27	1:30 p.m.	at Dartmouth	Memorial Field Hanover, NH (rivalry)	ESPN+	L 17-24	5,814
November 3	Noon	Columbia	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	ESPN+/NESN	W 52–18	10,447
November 10	1:00 p.m.	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	ESPN+	W 29-7	13,224
November 17	Noon	vs. Yale	Fenway Park Boston, MA (rivalry)	ESPN2	W 45–27	34,675
*Non-conference game Rankings from STATS Poll released prior to the game All times are in Eastern time

Game summaries

San Diego

	1	2	3	4	Total
Toreros	3	3	8	0	14
Crimson	27	0	3	6	36

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
2–0	September 21, 2013	W, 42–20

at Brown

	1	2	3	4	Total
Crimson	14	10	0	7	31
Bears	3	0	7	7	17

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
85–30–2	September 23, 2017	W, 45–28

Rhode Island

	1	2	3	4	Total
No. 22 Rams	2	14	7	0	23
Crimson	3	0	6	7	16

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
3–1	September 16, 2017	L, 10–17

at Cornell

	1	2	3	4	Total
Crimson	7	0	10	7	24
Big Red	0	7	7	14	28

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
47–33–2	October 7, 2017	L, 14–17

Holy Cross

	1	2	3	4	Total
Crusaders	0	7	7	17	31
Crimson	9	11	10	3	33

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
42–25–2	October 15, 2016	L, 17–27

Princeton

	1	2	3	4	Total
No. 23 Tigers	7	3	0	19	29
Crimson	0	7	0	14	21

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
48–55–7	October 20, 2017	L, 17–52

at Dartmouth

	1	2	3	4	Total
Crimson	0	0	7	10	17
Big Green	14	7	0	3	24

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
71–45–5	October 28, 2017	W, 25–22

Columbia

	1	2	3	4	Total
Lions	6	6	0	6	18
Crimson	21	7	7	17	52

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
61–14–1	November 4, 2017	W, 21–14

at Penn

	1	2	3	4	Total
Crimson	10	6	13	0	29
Quakers	0	0	0	7	7

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
48–38–2	November 11, 2017	L, 6–23

vs. Yale

	1	2	3	4	Total
Bulldogs	7	7	10	3	27
Crimson	7	14	7	17	45

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
59–67–8	November 18, 2017	L, 3–24

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References

"2018 Harvard Football Schedule". Harvard University Athletics. Retrieved 3 April 2018.

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[1] "2018 Harvard Football Schedule". Harvard University Athletics. Retrieved 3 April 2018.

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