1902 Harvard Crimson football team

1902 Harvard Crimson football
1902 Harvard Crimson football
Conference	Independent
Record	11–1
Head coach	John Wells Farley (1st season);
Home stadium	Soldiers' Field
	Seasons ← 1901 1903 →

1902 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Ursinus		–		9	–	0	–	0
Yale		–		11	–	0	–	1
Geneva		–		7	–	0	–	0
Harvard		–		11	–	1	–	0
Princeton		–		8	–	1	–	0
Army		–		6	–	1	–	1
Frankin & Marshall		–		7	–	2	–	0
Dartmouth		–		6	–	2	–	1
Holy Cross		–		6	–	2	–	1
Syracuse		–		6	–	2	–	1
Carlisle		–		8	–	3	–	0
Cornell		–		8	–	3	–	0
Lafayette		–		8	–	3	–	0
Amherst		–		7	–	3	–	0
Penn State		–		7	–	3	–	0
Penn		–		9	–	4	–	0
Lehigh		–		7	–	3	–	1
Vermont		–		5	–	3	–	2
Colgate		–		5	–	3	–	1
NYU		–		5	–	3	–	0
Bucknell		–		6	–	4	–	0
Washington & Jefferson		–		6	–	4	–	0
Columbia		–		6	–	4	–	1
Springfield Training School		–		3	–	2	–	1
Villanova		–		4	–	3	–	0
Brown		–		5	–	4	–	1
Swarthmore		–		6	–	6	–	0
Western U. of Penn.		–		5	–	6	–	1
New Hampshire		–		2	–	3	–	1
Buffalo		–		3	–	5	–	1
Tufts		–		4	–	6	–	1
Fordham		–		2	–	4	–	1
Wesleyan		–		3	–	6	–	1
Rutgers		–		3	–	7	–	0
Navy		–		2	–	7	–	1
Drexel		–		1	–	4	–	1
Temple		–		1	–	4	–	1
Pittsburgh College		–		1	–	6	–	0
Boston College		–		0	–	8	–	0

The 1902 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1902 college football season. The Crimson finished with an 11–1 record under first-year head coach John Wells Farley. The 1902 team won its first eleven games by a combined 184–23 score. It then closed the season with a 23–0 loss against rival Yale.^[1]^[2] Walter Camp selected two Harvard players as first-team selections to his 1902 College Football All-America Team. They were end Edward Bowditch and fullback Thomas Graydon.^[3]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 27	Williams	Soldiers' Field Boston, MA	W 11–0	1,500	^[4]
October 1	Bowdoin	Soldiers' Field Boston, MA	W 17–6	500	^[5]
October 4	Bates	Soldiers' Field Boston, MA	W 23–0	4,500–5,000	^[6]
October 8	Amherst	Soldiers' Field Boston, MA	W 6–0	4,000	^[7]
October 11	Maine	Soldiers' Field Boston, MA	W 22–0	> 5,000	^[8]
October 15	Wesleyan	Soldiers' Field Boston, MA	W 35–5	5,000	^[9]
October 18	at Army	The Plain West Point, NY	W 14–6		^[10]
October 25	Brown	Soldiers' Field Boston, MA	W 6–0	>20,000	^[11]
November 1	Carlisle	Soldiers' Field Boston, MA	W 23–0	16,000	^[12]
November 8	Penn	Soldiers' Field Boston, MA (rivalry)	W 11–0	> 16,000	^[13]
November 15	Dartmouth	Soldiers' Field Boston, MA (rivalry)	W 16–6	10,000	^[14]
November 22	at Yale	Yale Field New Haven, CT (rivalry)	L 0–23	30,000	^[15]

References

^ "1902 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
^ "Harvard Football Yearly Records". GoCrimson.com. Harvard University. Archived from the original on August 14, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
^ Michael MacCambridge, Dan Jenkins (2005). ESPN College Football Encyclopedia: The Complete History of College Football from 1869 to the Present. p. 1145.
^ "Only 11 Points: Harvard Plays Poorly Against Williams Team". The Boston Globe. September 28, 1902. p. 1 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
^ "Small Colleges Score on Harvard and Yale". Boston Post. October 2, 1902. p. 3 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
^ "Harvard Defeats Bates 23 to 0". The Boston Globe. October 5, 1902. p. 10 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
^ "Harvard Barely Beats Amherst". The Boston Globe. October 9, 1902. p. 5 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
^ "With Many Subs Harvard Defeats University of Maine 22 to 0". The Boston Globe. October 12, 1902. p. 9 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
^ "Harvard Varsity Overwhelms Wesleyan in the First Half". The Boston Globe. October 16, 1902. p. 3 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
^ "Harvard Beat Cadets". The Boston Globe. October 19, 1902. p. 5 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
^ "Harvard 6, Brown 0: Providence Gives Players Crimson a Bad Scare". Boston Post. October 26, 1902. p. 1 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
^ "Harvard 23, Carlisle 0: Unusually Spectacular Football on Soldiers Field". The Boston Globe. November 2, 1902. p. 1 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
^ "Penn Puts Up a Plucky Fight: Harvard Wins, But Only by a Score of 11 to 0". The Boston Globe. November 9, 1902. p. 1 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
^ "Dartmouth Scares Harvard". The Boston Globe. November 16, 1902. pp. 1, 5 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
^ "Yale 23, Harvard 0: Crimson Outclassed at Every Stage; 30,000 Saw Game". Boston Post. November 23, 1902. p. 1 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.

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[SR-1] "1902 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.

[WC-3] Michael MacCambridge, Dan Jenkins (2005). ESPN College Football Encyclopedia: The Complete History of College Football from 1869 to the Present. p. 1145.

[4] "Only 11 Points: Harvard Plays Poorly Against Williams Team". The Boston Globe. September 28, 1902. p. 1 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.

[5] "Small Colleges Score on Harvard and Yale". Boston Post. October 2, 1902. p. 3 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.

[6] "Harvard Defeats Bates 23 to 0". The Boston Globe. October 5, 1902. p. 10 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.

[7] "Harvard Barely Beats Amherst". The Boston Globe. October 9, 1902. p. 5 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.

[8] "With Many Subs Harvard Defeats University of Maine 22 to 0". The Boston Globe. October 12, 1902. p. 9 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.

[9] "Harvard Varsity Overwhelms Wesleyan in the First Half". The Boston Globe. October 16, 1902. p. 3 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.

[10] "Harvard Beat Cadets". The Boston Globe. October 19, 1902. p. 5 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.

[11] "Harvard 6, Brown 0: Providence Gives Players Crimson a Bad Scare". Boston Post. October 26, 1902. p. 1 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.

[12] "Harvard 23, Carlisle 0: Unusually Spectacular Football on Soldiers Field". The Boston Globe. November 2, 1902. p. 1 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.

[13] "Penn Puts Up a Plucky Fight: Harvard Wins, But Only by a Score of 11 to 0". The Boston Globe. November 9, 1902. p. 1 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.

[14] "Dartmouth Scares Harvard". The Boston Globe. November 16, 1902. pp. 1, 5 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.

[15] "Yale 23, Harvard 0: Crimson Outclassed at Every Stage; 30,000 Saw Game". Boston Post. November 23, 1902. p. 1 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.

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