1876–77 Harvard Crimson football team

American college football season

1876 Harvard Crimson football

Conference| Independent
Record| 3–1
Head coach|

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Captain| Nathaniel Curtis

Seasons

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1877 ->

1876 college football records

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Team | W |  | L |  | T |  |  | W |  | L |  | T
Yale |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 3  | - | 0  | - | 0
Rutgers |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 1  | - | 0  | - | 0
Harvard |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 3  | - | 1  | - | 0
Princeton |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 3  | - | 2  | - | 0
Stevens |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 2  | - | 0
CCNY |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 1  | - | 1  | - | 0
Penn |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 1  | - | 2  | - | 0
Columbia |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 1  | - | 3  | - | 0
Canada All-Stars |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 0  | - | 1  | - | 0
McGill |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 0  | - | 1  | - | 0
Northwestern |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 0  | - | 1  | - | 0
Philadelphia All-Stars  |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 0  | - | 1  | - | 0
NYU |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 0  | - | 2  | - | 0

The 1876–77 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1876 college football season. They finished with a 3–1 record.[1] The team captain was Nathaniel Curtis.[2]

On November 18, 1876, the second Harvard–Yale football rivalry game was played before a crowd of approximately 2,000 people at Hamilton Park in New Haven, Connecticut. Walter Camp played for Yale, which won the game 1–0.

## Schedule

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October 28| 3:00 p.m.| at Canada All-Stars| Montreal, QC| W 2–0| | [3][4]
October 30| 10:30 a.m.| at McGill| Montreal, QC| W 1–0| | [5]
November 18| 3:00 p.m.| at Yale|

* Hamilton Park
* New Haven, CT (rivalry)

| L 0–1| 2,000| [6][7]
April 28, 1877| | Princeton| Cambridge, MA (rivalry)| W 1–0| 2,500| [8]

## References

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1. ^ "1876 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 23, 2017.
2. ^ "Harvard Football Yearly Records". GoCrimson.com. Harvard University. Archived from the original on August 14, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
3. ^ "Football". The Gazette. Montreal, Quebec. October 28, 1876. p. 3. Retrieved March 30, 2022 - via Newspapers.com .
4. ^ "Foot-Ball Match". The Evening Star. Montreal, Quebec. October 30, 1876. p. 2. Retrieved March 30, 2022 - via Newspapers.com .
5. ^ "Football". The Gazette. Montreal, Quebec. October 30, 1876. p. 1. Retrieved March 26, 2022 - via Newspapers.com .
6. ^ "Game Between The Harvard and Yale Clubs At Hamilton Park - Yale Wins". New York Herald. November 19, 1876. p. 10 - via Newspapers.com.
7. ^ "Foot Ball.—The Yales Defeat Harvard and Princeton Defeats Columbia". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 20, 1876. p. 3. Retrieved March 26, 2022 - via Newspapers.com .
8. ^ "General Notes". New-York Tribune. New York, New York. April 30, 1877. p. 4. Retrieved March 27, 2022 - via Newspapers.com .

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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

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* Head coaches
* NFL draftees

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