1918 Harvard Crimson football team

American college football season

1918 Harvard Crimson football

Conference| Independent
Record| 2–1
Head coach|

* William F. Donovan (1st season)

Home stadium| Harvard Stadium

Seasons

<- 1917

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1918 Eastern college football independents records

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Team | W |  | L |  | T |  |  | W |  | L |  | T
Bucknell |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 6  | - | 0  | - | 0
Princeton |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 3  | - | 0  | - | 0
Holy Cross |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 0  | - | 0
Army |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 1  | - | 0  | - | 0
Buffalo |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 6  | - | 1  | - | 0
Columbia |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 5  | - | 1  | - | 0
Syracuse |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 5  | - | 1  | - | 0
Pittsburgh |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 4  | - | 1  | - | 0
Boston College |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 5  | - | 2  | - | 0
Rutgers |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 5  | - | 2  | - | 0
Franklin & Marshall |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 1  | - | 0
Geneva |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 4  | - | 2  | - | 0
Swarthmore |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 4  | - | 2  | - | 0
Harvard |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 1  | - | 0
Fordham |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 4  | - | 2  | - | 1
Villanova |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 3  | - | 2  | - | 0
Penn |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 5  | - | 3  | - | 0
Dartmouth |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 3  | - | 3  | - | 0
Lehigh |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 4  | - | 4  | - | 0
Washington & Jefferson |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 2  | - | 0
New Hampshire |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 2  | - | 1
Lafayette |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 3  | - | 4  | - | 0
Brown |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 3  | - | 0
Tufts |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 3  | - | 0
Penn State |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 1  | - | 2  | - | 1
Vermont |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 0  | - | 1  | - | 1
Drexel |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 0  | - | 1  | - | 0
NYU |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 0  | - | 4  | - | 0

The 1918 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1918 college football season. The Crimson finished with a 2–1 record under first-year head coach William F. Donovan.[1][2] Walter Camp did not select any Harvard players as first-team members of his 1918 College Football All-America Team.[3]

## Schedule

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Date| Opponent| Site| Result

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November 9|  Tufts|

* Harvard Stadium
* Boston, MA

| W 7–0
November 23|  Boston College|

* Harvard Stadium
* Boston, MA

| W 14–6
November 30|  Brown|

* Harvard Stadium
* Boston, MA

| L 3–6

## References

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1. ^ "1918 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.
3. ^ "Camp's All American: Football Dean Names Three Teams from Last Season's Records" (PDF). The New York Times. December 31, 1918.

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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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