1980 Harvard Crimson football team

1980 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIvy League
Record7–3 (4–3 Ivy)
Head coach
CaptainCharles F. Durst
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
Seasons
← 1979
1981 →
1980 Ivy League football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale $ 6 1 0 8 2 0
Cornell 5 2 0 5 5 0
Harvard 4 3 0 7 3 0
Brown 4 3 0 6 4 0
Princeton 4 3 0 6 4 0
Dartmouth 4 3 0 4 6 0
Penn 1 6 0 1 9 0
Columbia 0 7 0 1 9 0
  • $ – Conference champion

The 1980 Harvard Crimson football team was an American football team that represented Harvard University during the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season. Harvard tied for third place in the Ivy League.

In their tenth year under head coach Joe Restic, the Crimson compiled a 7–3 record and outscored opponents 159 to 138. Charles F. Durst was the team captain.[1]

Harvard's 4–3 conference record tied for third in the Ivy League standings. The Crimson were evenly matched by Ivy opponents, with 106 points scored and 106 points against.[2]

Ivy League football teams expanded their schedules to 10 games in 1980, making this the first year since 1953 that the Crimson played three games against non-Ivy opponents.

Harvard played its home games at Harvard Stadium in the Allston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.

  1. ^ "Football Record Book: Year-by-Year Results" (PDF). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  2. ^ "Year-by-Year History". Ivy League Football Media Guide (PDF). Princeton, N.J.: Ivy League. 2017. p. 29. Retrieved July 10, 2020.