1914 Harvard Crimson football team

The 1914 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1914 college football season. The Crimson finished with an undefeated 7–0–2 record under seventh-year head coach Percy Haughton. Harvard outscored its opponents by a combined score of 187–28, but tied Penn State and Brown.[1][2]

1914 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
1914 record7–0–2
Head coachPercy Haughton (7th season)
CaptainCharles Brickley
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
1914 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Army   –    9 –0 –0
Harvard   –    7 –0 –2
Wash. & Jeff.   –    10 –1 –0
Dartmouth   –    8 –1 –0
Lehigh   –    8 –1 –0
Pittsburgh   –    8 –1 –0
Cornell   –    8 –2 –0
Yale   –    7 –2 –0
Franklin & Marshall   –    6 –2 –1
Colgate   –    5 –2 –1
Princeton   –    5 –2 –1
Brown   –    5 –2 –2
Fordham   –    6 –3 –1
Geneva   –    5 –3 –0
Tufts   –    5 –3 –0
NYU   –    5 –3 –1
Penn State   –    5 –3 –1
Rutgers   –    5 –3 –1
Lafayette   –    5 –3 –2
Syracuse   –    5 –3 –2
Boston College   –    5 –4 –0
Villanova   –    4 –3 –1
Carnegie Tech   –    4 –4 –0
Penn   –    4 –4 –1
Temple   –    3 –3 –0
Rhode Island State   –    2 –3 –3
Carlisle   –    5 –10 –1
Duquesne   –    1 –5 –0

Walter Camp selected four Harvard players (end Huntington "Tack" Hardwick, tackle Walter Trumbull, guard Stan Pennock, and halfback Eddie Mahan) as first-team members of his All-American Team.[3]

The Crimson played in the inaugural game at the Yale Bowl on November 21; Harvard defeated rival Yale, 36–0, with over 68,000 in attendance.[4][5][6]

Schedule
DateOpponentSiteResult
September 26 Bates
W 44–0
October 3 Springfield YMCA
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 44–0
October 10 Washington & Jefferson
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 10–9
October 17 Tufts
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 13–6
October 24 Penn State
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
T 13–13
October 31 Michigan
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Cambridge, MA
W 7–0
November 7 Princeton
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 20–0
November 14 Brown
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
T 0–0
November 21at Yale
W 36–0

References
  1. "1914 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. "Harvard Football Yearly Records". GoCrimson.com. Harvard University. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  3. "Walter Camp's Three All-American Elevens". The Syracuse Herald. 1914-12-13.
  4. Amore, Dom (November 13, 2014). "Yale Bowl starts big, and 100 years later, it remains special". Hartford Courant. (Connecticut). Retrieved December 1, 2017.
  5. "Yale victim of bad breaks or score might have been closer". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). November 22, 1914. p. 1, part 3.
  6. "Greatest football crowd ever, sees big match". The Day. (New London, Connecticut). November 21, 1914. p. 13.
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