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1894 Harvard Crimson football team

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The 1894 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University as an independent during the 1894 college football season. The team finished with an 11–2 record under first-year head coach William A. Brooks. The team won its first 11 games by a combined total of 326 to 16, but lost the final two games to Yale (4–12) and Penn (4–18).[1][2]

1894 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record11–2
Head coach
Home stadiumSoldiers' Field
Seasons
← 1893
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1894 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale   –   16 – 0 – 0
Penn   –   12 – 0 – 0
Villanova   –   1 – 0 – 0
Penn State   –   6 – 0 – 1
Harvard   –   11 – 2 – 0
Geneva   –   5 – 1 – 0
Princeton   –   8 – 2 – 0
Temple   –   4 – 1 – 0
Holy Ghost College   –   7 – 2 – 1
Washington & Jefferson   –   5 – 2 – 1
Brown   –   10 – 5 – 0
Bucknell   –   5 – 3 – 0
Colgate   –   2 – 1 – 1
Army   –   3 – 2 – 0
Frankin & Marshall   –   6 – 4 – 0
Cornell   –   6 – 4 – 1
Amherst   –   7 – 5 – 0
Trinity (CT)   –   4 – 3 – 0
Syracuse   –   6 – 5 – 0
Tufts   –   6 – 5 – 0
Massachusetts   –   3 – 3 – 0
Swarthmore   –   5 – 5 – 0
Western Univ. Penn   –   1 – 1 – 0
Lafayette   –   5 – 6 – 0
New Hampshire   –   2 – 3 – 0
Rutgers   –   4 – 6 – 0
Lehigh   –   5 – 9 – 0
Williams   –   1 – 3 – 0
Drexel   –   1 – 3 – 0
MIT   –   1 – 4 – 0
Boston College   –   1 – 6 – 0
Carlisle   –   1 – 8 – 0
Buffalo   –   0 – 2 – 0
NYU   –   0 – 3 – 0
Wesleyan   –   0 – 5 – 0

Harvard tackle Bert Waters was a consensus first-team All-American.

Schedule

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DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 293:30 p.m. Dartmouth
W 22–02,000–3,000[3][4][5]
October 3 Phillips Exeter
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 48–0500[6][7]
October 6 Andover
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 46–01,200[8]
October 114:00 p.m. Brown
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 18–42,000[9][10][11][12][13]
October 13 Orange Athletic Club
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 14–0300[14][15]
October 17 Amherst
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 30–01,500[16][17]
October 21 Williams
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 32–03,500[18][19]
October 27vs. Cornell
W 22–128,000[20][21]
November 1 Boston Athletic Association
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 40–02,000[22][23]
November 10 Chicago Athletic Association
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 36–03,500[24]
November 153:30 p.m. Brown
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 18–04,000–5,000[25][26][27][28]
November 24vs. Yale
L 4–1223,000[29]
November 29at Penn Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)L 4–1823,000[30]

References

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  1. ^ "1894 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. ^ "Harvard's First". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. September 29, 1894. p. 7. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com  .
  4. ^ "Steady Plunges". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. September 30, 1894. p. 2. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com  .
  5. ^ "Football On". Boston Post. Boston, Massachusetts. September 30, 1894. p. 3. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com  .
  6. ^ "Day of Trials: Harvard Kept Changing Line With Exeter". The Boston Globe. October 4, 1894. p. 2 – via NewspaperArchive.(Soldiers' Field)
  7. ^ "Harvard Beat Exeter". Boston Post. October 4, 1894. p. 3 – via NewspaperArchive.(attendance 500)
  8. ^ "On the Grid: Harvard Beat Andover in a Good Game, 46-0". Boston Post. October 7, 1894. p. 3 – via NewspaperArchive.
  9. ^ "Harvard And Brown Today". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 11, 1894. p. 2. Retrieved March 8, 2022 – via Newspapers.com  .
  10. ^ "Brown Scores". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 12, 1894. p. 1. Retrieved March 8, 2022 – via Newspapers.com  .
  11. ^ "Brown Scores (continued)". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 12, 1894. p. 7. Retrieved March 8, 2022 – via Newspapers.com  .
  12. ^ "Brown Did It: Harvard's Clean Record Has Its Blot; Crimson, 18; Brown, 4". The Boston Post. October 12, 1894. pp. 1, 3 – via NewspaperArchive.(attendance 2,000)
  13. ^ "Brown Scores: Hopkins Gets Clear of the Harvard Men". The Boston Globe. October 12, 1894. p. 1 – via NewspaperArchive.
  14. ^ "Wade to Goal: Harvard Beat Orange A. C. in the Rain, 14-0". Boston Post. October 14, 1894. p. 3 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.(attendance 300)
  15. ^ "All Amphibious: Harvard's Football Men Swim in Mud; Strong Orange A.C. Club Is Beaten, 14 to 0". The Boston Globe. October 14, 1894. p. 1 – via NewspaperArchive.
  16. ^ "Harvard Men Play Poorly Against Amherst". Boston Globe. October 18, 1894. pp. 1, 3 – via NewspaperArchive.(attendance 1,500)
  17. ^ "Round the End: Amherst Makes Gains, but Fails to Score". The Boston Globe. October 18, 1894. p. 1 – via NewspaperArchive.(Soldiers' Field)
  18. ^ "Williams, 0: Harvard Did What Yale Couldn't Do". Boston Post. October 22, 1894. p. 3 – via NewspaperArchive.(attendance 3,500)
  19. ^ "Not Very Hard: Harvard Ran Away From Williams Men". The Boston Globe. October 22, 1894. p. 1 – via NewspaperArchive.(Soldiers' Field)
  20. ^ "It Was Work: Cornell Put 12 Against Harvard's 22". Boston Globe. October 28, 1894. p. 1 – via NewspaperArchive.
  21. ^ "Blocked Punts Enabled Cornell to Score Against Harvard: Men From Ithaca Put Up a Very Foxy Game". The Boston Globe. October 28, 1894. p. 1 – via NewspaperArchive.
  22. ^ "Rather Easy: B.A.A. Men Not a Match for Harvard". Boston Post. November 2, 1894. p. 3 – via NewspaperArchive.
  23. ^ "Score Was 40-0: Harvard Too Strong for B.A.A. Eleven". The Boston Globe. November 2, 1894. p. 7 – via NewspaperArchive.
  24. ^ ""Chicagoed": C.A.A. Team No Match for Harvard; Defeated 36 to 0". Boston Post. November 11, 1894. p. 3 – via NewspaperArchive.(attendance 3,500)
  25. ^ "Harvard Vs Brown Today". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 15, 1894. p. 4. Retrieved March 8, 2022 – via Newspapers.com  .
  26. ^ "Not Her Eleven". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 16, 1894. p. 1. Retrieved March 8, 2022 – via Newspapers.com  .
  27. ^ "Not Her Eleven (continued)". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 16, 1894. p. 7. Retrieved March 8, 2022 – via Newspapers.com  .
  28. ^ "Outdid Yale: Harvard Defeated the Brown Boys, 18-0". Boston Post. November 16, 1894. p. 3 – via NewspaperArchive.
  29. ^ "Yale 12, Harvard 4". The Boston Globe. November 25, 1894. pp. 1, 2, 4 – via NewspaperArchive.
  30. ^ "Penn's Glorious Finish: Harvard's Football Hope Crushed Out, 18 to 4". Boston Post. November 30, 1894. p. 1 – via NewspaperArchive.


 

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