1919 Harvard Crimson football team

1919 Harvard Crimson football
National champion (Helms, Houlgate)
Co-national champion (CFRA, NCF, Davis)
Rose Bowl champion
Rose Bowl, W 7–6 vs. Oregon
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–0–1
Head coach
CaptainBilly Murray
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
Seasons
← 1918
1920 →
1919 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard     9 0 1
Penn State     7 1 0
Swarthmore     7 1 0
Dartmouth     6 1 1
Colgate     5 1 1
New Hampshire     7 2 0
Lafayette     6 2 0
Washington & Jefferson     6 2 0
Williams     6 2 0
Syracuse     8 3 0
Penn     6 2 1
Pittsburgh     6 2 1
Lehigh     6 3 0
Princeton     4 2 1
Geneva     4 2 2
Army     6 3 0
Boston College     5 3 0
Holy Cross     5 3 0
Rutgers     5 3 0
Yale     5 3 0
Villanova     5 3 1
Brown     5 4 1
Bucknell     5 4 1
NYU     4 4 0
Carnegie Tech     3 4 0
Columbia     2 4 3
Cornell     3 5 0
Vermont     3 6 0
Franklin & Marshall     2 4 2
Tufts     2 5 0
Buffalo     0 5 1
Rhode Island State     0 8 1
Drexel     0 4 0

The 1919 Harvard Crimson football team was an American football team that represented Harvard University as an independent during the 1919 college football season. In their first season under head coach Bob Fisher, the Crimson compiled a 9–0–1 record, shut out seven of ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 229 to 19. The team was invited to play in the 1920 Rose Bowl and defeated Oregon, 7–6.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ "1919 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ "The History of Harvard Sports IV: Harvard in the Rose Bowl". The Harvard Crimson. March 16, 1968.
  3. ^ John Powers (July 26, 2019). "Remembering the 1920 Rose Bowl Game Victory". The Harvard Crimson.