1914_Harvard_Crimson_football_team

1914 Harvard Crimson football team

1914 Harvard Crimson football team

American college football season

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]

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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]

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References

  1. [1]
    "1914 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. [2]
    "Harvard Football Yearly Records". GoCrimson.com. Harvard University. Archived from the original on August 14, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  3. [3]
    "Walter Camp's Three All-American Elevens". The Syracuse Herald. December 13, 1914.
  4. [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. [5]
    "Yale victim of bad breaks or score might have been closer". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). November 22, 1914. p. 1, part 3.
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    "Greatest football crowd ever, sees big match". The Day. (New London, Connecticut). November 21, 1914. p. 13.
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    "Harvard Wins By A Point, 10-9". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 11, 1914. p. 16. Retrieved September 18, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  8. [8]
    "Harvard Buries Yale In New Bowl: Pile Up 36 Points and Shut Out Yale". The Hartford Courant. November 22, 1914. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.(reporting crowd size of 71,000)


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