1875–76 Harvard Crimson football team

American college football season

1875 Harvard Crimson football

National champion (NCF)
Co-national champion (Davis)

Conference| Independent
Record| 4–0
Head coach|

* None

Captain| William A. Whiting

Seasons

<- 1874

1876 ->

The 1875–76 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1875 college football season. The team finished with a 4–0 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the National Championship Foundation and as a co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.[1] The team captain was William A. Whiting.[2]

## Schedule[edit]

Date| Opponent| Site| Result| Source

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October 23| at Canada All-Stars| Montreal, QC| W 1–0|
October 27| at Tufts| Medford, MA| W 1–0|
November 13| at Yale|

* Hamilton Park
* New Haven, CT (rivalry)

| W 4–0| [3][4]
May 8, 1876| Canada All-Stars| Cambridge, MA| W 1–0|

## Standings[edit]

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Team | W |  | L |  | T |  |  | W |  | L |  | T
Harvard |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 4  | - | 0  | - | 0
Princeton |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 0  | - | 0
Columbia |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 4  | - | 1  | - | 1
Rutgers |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 1  | - | 1  | - | 1
Yale |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 2  | - | 0
Stevens |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 3  | - | 3  | - | 0
Tufts |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 0  | - | 1  | - | 0
NYU |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 0  | - | 1  | - | 0
Wesleyan |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 0  | - | 1  | - | 0
Bates |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 0  | - | 1  | - | 0
Canada All-Stars |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 0  | - | 2  | - | 0
CCNY |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 0  | - | 3  | - | 0
Tufst v Harvard game on 27 October |  News about the Harvard v Yale game played under the "concessionary rules". It is considered the first rugby-style game between US-based colleges

## References[edit]

1. ^ "National Poll Champions" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. National Collegiate Athletic Association. 2017. p. 110. Retrieved December 31, 2017.
2. ^ "Harvard Football Yearly Results". Harvard University. Archived from the original on August 14, 2014. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
3. ^ "Football Game Between Harvard and Yale Today". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 13, 1875. p. 5. Retrieved March 29, 2022 - via Newspapers.com .
4. ^ "Foot Ball.—The Match Between Harvard And Yale – Harvard Victorious". Boston Evening Transcript. Boston, Massachusetts. November 15, 1875. p. 1. Retrieved March 29, 2022 - via Newspapers.com .

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1875 Harvard Crimson football—national champions

* Nathaniel Curtis
* William Austin Whiting

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Harvard Crimson football

Venues|

* Boston Baseball Grounds (1877–1881)
* Holmes Field (1881–1882, 1888)
* Jarvis Field (1883–1893)
* Soldier's Field (1894–1903)
* Harvard Stadium (1903–present)

Bowls and rivalries|

* 1920 Rose Bowl
* Dartmouth
* Penn
* Princeton
* Yale

Culture and lore|

* "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard"
* 1874 McGill game
* 1921 Centre game
* 1968 Yale game (Harvard Beats Yale 29–29)
* 2004 Harvard–Yale prank

People|

* Head coaches
* NFL draftees

Seasons|

* 1873
* 1874
* 1875
* 1876
* 1877
* 1878
* 1879
* 1880
* 1881
* 1882
* 1883
* 1884
* 1885
* 1886
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* 1929
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National championship seasons in bold

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College football national champions (pre-AP Poll)

1869–1879|

* 1869: Princeton / Rutgers
* 1870: Princeton
* 1871: None
* 1872: Princeton
* 1873: Princeton
* 1874: Yale
* 1875: Harvard
* 1876: Yale
* 1877: Yale
* 1878: Princeton
* 1879: Princeton

1880s|

* 1880: Princeton / Yale
* 1881: Yale
* 1882: Yale
* 1883: Yale
* 1884: Yale
* 1885: Princeton
* 1886: Yale
* 1887: Yale
* 1888: Yale
* 1889: Princeton

1890s|

* 1890: Harvard
* 1891: Yale
* 1892: Yale
* 1893: Princeton
* 1894: Yale
* 1895: Penn
* 1896: Lafayette / Princeton
* 1897: Penn
* 1898: Harvard
* 1899: Harvard

1900s|

* 1900: Yale
* 1901: Michigan
* 1902: Michigan
* 1903: Michigan / Princeton
* 1904: Michigan / Penn
* 1905: Chicago
* 1906: Princeton
* 1907: Yale
* 1908: LSU / Penn
* 1909: Yale

1910s|

* 1910: Harvard / Pittsburgh
* 1911: Penn State / Princeton
* 1912: Harvard / Penn State
* 1913: Harvard
* 1914: Army
* 1915: Cornell
* 1916: Pittsburgh
* 1917: Georgia Tech
* 1918: Michigan / Pittsburgh
* 1919: Harvard / Illinois / Notre Dame / Texas A&M

1920s|

* 1920: California
* 1921: California / Cornell
* 1922: California / Cornell / Princeton
* 1923: Illinois / Michigan
* 1924: Notre Dame
* 1925: Alabama
* 1926: Alabama / Stanford
* 1927: Illinois / Yale
* 1928: Georgia Tech
* 1929: Notre Dame

1930s|

* 1930: Alabama / Notre Dame
* 1931: USC
* 1932: USC
* 1933: Michigan
* 1934: Minnesota
* 1935: Minnesota

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