1890 Harvard Crimson football team

American college football season

1890 Harvard Crimson football

National champion (multiple selectors)

Conference| Independent
Record| 11–0
Head coach|

* George A. Stewart & George C. Adams (1st season)

Captain| Arthur Cumnock
Home stadium| Jarvis Field

Seasons

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1891 ->

1890 Eastern college football independents records

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Team | W |  | L |  | T |  |  | W |  | L |  | T
Harvard |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 11  | - | 0  | - | 0
Yale |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 13  | - | 1  | - | 0
Princeton |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 11  | - | 1  | - | 1
Franklin & Marshall |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 8  | - | 2  | - | 0
Navy |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 5  | - | 1  | - | 1
Penn |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 11  | - | 3  | - | 0
Washington & Jefferson |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 1  | - | 0
Cornell |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 7  | - | 4  | - | 0
Syracuse |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 7  | - | 4  | - | 0
Springfield YMCA |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 5  | - | 3  | - | 0
Lehigh |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 6  | - | 4  | - | 0
Rutgers |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 5  | - | 5  | - | 1
Penn State |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 2  | - | 0
Colgate |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 1  | - | 1  | - | 0
Wesleyan |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 5  | - | 6  | - | 0
Tufts |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 3  | - | 0
NYU |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 4  | - | 0
Western Univ. Penn |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 1  | - | 2  | - | 0
Lafayette |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 5  | - | 1
Fordham |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 1  | - | 3  | - | 1
Brown |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 5  | - | 0
Bucknell |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 1  | - | 4  | - | 1
Massachusetts |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 1  | - | 4  | - | 0
Columbia |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 1  | - | 5  | - | 1
Army |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 0  | - | 1  | - | 0
Geneva |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 0  | - | 1  | - | 0

The 1890 Harvard Crimson football team was an American football team that represented Harvard University in the 1890 college football season. The team finished with an 11–0 record, shut out nine of eleven opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 555 to 12.[1]

The team also won Harvard's first national championship, receiving retroactive recognition as national champion from the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.[2] On November 22, Harvard defeated Walter Camp's previously-unbeaten Yale Bulldogs to secure the championship; it was Harvard's first football victory over Yale since 1875.[3] Harvard did not play Princeton (11–1–1) during the 1890 season.

Five Harvard players were selected by Caspar Whitney to the 1890 All-America college football team: quarterback Dudley Dean; halfback John J. Corbett; end Frank Hallowell; center John Cranston; and tackle Marshall Newell.[4] Other players included end and team captain Arthur Cumnock, halfback James P. Lee, Herb Alward, Hiland Orlando Stickney, Bernard Trafford, and tackle Joshua Damon Upton. George A. Stewart and George C. Adams were the team's coaches.

## Schedule

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Date| Time| Opponent| Site| Result| Attendance| Source

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October 1| | Phillips Exeter|

* Jarvis Field
* Cambridge, MA

| W 41–0| | [5]
October 4| | Dartmouth|

* Jarvis Field
* Cambridge, MA (rivalry)

| W 45–0| | [6]
October 11| | Amherst|

* Jarvis Field
* Cambridge, MA

| W 74–6| | [7]
October 18| | Williams|

* Jarvis Field
* Cambridge, MA

| W 38–0| | [8]
October 22| | Dartmouth|

* Jarvis Field
* Cambridge, MA

| W 64–0| | [9]
October 25| | Bowdoin|

* Jarvis Field
* Cambridge, MA

| W 54–0| | [10]
October 29| | Wesleyan|

* Jarvis Field
* Cambridge, MA

| W 55–0| | [11]
November 1| | Cornell|

* Jarvis Field
* Cambridge, MA

| W 77–0| | [12]
November 4| | Orange Athletic Club|

* Jarvis Field
* Cambridge, MA

| W 33–0| | [13]
November 12| | vs. Amherst|

* Hampden Park
* Springfield, MA

| W 64–0| 500| [14][15]
November 22| 2:30 p.m.| vs. Yale|

* Hampden Park
* Springfield, MA (rivalry)

| W 12–6| 15,000–17,000| [3][16][17][18]

## Gallery of Harvard players

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* James P. Lee

* John Corbett

* Arthur Cumnock

* Dudley Dean

* Marshall Newell

## References

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1. ^ "1890 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
2. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
3. ^ a b "Crimson: Even Ladies, Who Blushed". The Boston Globe. November 23, 1890. pp. 1, 4.
4. ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
5. ^ "Toyed With Exeter: Harvard's First Foot Ball Game". The Boston Globe. October 2, 1890. p. 5 - via Newspapers.com.
6. ^ "Drops and Punts: Harvard Too Clever for Dartmouth". The Boston Globe. October 5, 1890. p. 6 - via Newspapers.com.
7. ^ "Amherst Scored: Fumbling Game on Jarvis Field". The Boston Globe. October 12, 1890. p. 5 - via Newspapers.com.
8. ^ "Lee's Runs Saved the Day for Crimson". The Boston Globe. October 19, 1890. p. 4 - via Newspapers.com.
9. ^ "Around the End: Harvard Punts and Kicks Herself to Victory". The Boston Globe. October 23, 1890. p. 5 - via Newspapers.com.
10. ^ "Artful Sherwin: Always in the Maine Men's Way". The Boston Globe. October 26, 1890. p. 6 - via Newspapers.com.
11. ^ "Rain, Mud and Foot Ball". The Boston Globe. October 30, 1890. p. 3 - via Newspapers.com.
12. ^ "Good Old Points: Touch 'Em Down and Kick Your Goals". The Boston Globe. November 2, 1890. p. 6 - via Newspapers.com.
13. ^ "An Easy Victory Over Orange: Harvard Scores Thirty-Three Points To the Jersey Players' Nothing". New York Tribune. November 5, 1890. p. 12 - via Newspapers.com.
14. ^ "Rush, Run and Punt: Harvard Science Against Amherst Beef". The Boston Globe. November 13, 1890. p. 2 - via Newspapers.com.
15. ^ "Harvard And Yale—The Crimson Eleven Shown Yesterday at Springfield in the Amherst Game". The Meriden Daily Journal. Meriden, Connecticut. November 13, 1890. p. 2. Retrieved March 26, 2022 - via Newspapers.com .
16. ^ "Coming of the Thousands". The Boston Globe. November 23, 1890. p. 4 - via Newspapers.com.
17. ^ "Harvard's Jubilee: Her Team Defeats Yale in the Great Football Game at Springfield". New York Tribune. November 23, 1890. p. 1 - via Newspapers.com.
18. ^ "Yale Whipped By Harvard". The Sun. New York, New York. November 23, 1890. p. 8. Retrieved March 26, 2022 - via Newspapers.com .

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1890 Harvard Crimson football—national champions

* Herb Alward
* John Corbett
* John Cranston
* Arthur Cumnock
* Dudley Dean
* Frank Hallowell
* James P. Lee
* Marshall Newell
* Hiland Orlando Stickney
* Bernard Trafford
* Joshua Damon Upton

Head coach
George A. Stewart
George C. Adams

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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

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* 1873
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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 / Yale
* 1873: Princeton
* 1874: Harvard / Princeton / Yale
* 1875: Columbia / Harvard / Princeton
* 1876: Yale
* 1877: Princeton / Yale
* 1878: Princeton
* 1879: Princeton

1880s|

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

1890s|

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

1900s|

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

1910s|

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

1920s|

* 1920: California / Georgia / Harvard / Notre Dame / Princeton
* 1921: California / Cornell / Iowa / Lafayette / Washington & Jefferson / Vanderbilt
* 1922: California / Cornell / Princeton / Vanderbilt
* 1923: California / Cornell / Illinois / Michigan / Yale
* 1924: Notre Dame / Penn
* 1925: Alabama / Dartmouth / Michigan
* 1926: Alabama / Lafayette / Michigan / Navy / Stanford
* 1927: Georgia / Illinois / Notre Dame / Texas A&M / Yale
* 1928: Detroit / Georgia Tech / USC
* 1929: Notre Dame / Pittsburgh / USC

1930s|

* 1930: Alabama / Notre Dame
* 1931: Pittsburgh / Purdue / USC
* 1932: Colgate / Michigan / USC
* 1933: Michigan / Ohio State / Princeton / USC
* 1934: Alabama / Minnesota
* 1935: LSU / Minnesota / Princeton / SMU / TCU

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