1928 Harvard Crimson football team

American college football season

1928 Harvard Crimson football

Conference| Independent
Record| 5–2–1
Head coach|

* Arnold Horween (3rd season)

Captain| Arthur E. French
Home stadium| Harvard Stadium

Seasons

<- 1927

1929 ->

1928 Eastern college football independents records

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Team | W |  | L |  | T |  |  | W |  | L |  | T
Boston College |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 9  | - | 0  | - | 0
West Chester |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 8  | - | 0  | - | 0
Villanova |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 7  | - | 0  | - | 1
Brown |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 8  | - | 1  | - | 0
No. 11 Penn |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 8  | - | 1  | - | 0
No. 6 Carnegie Tech |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 7  | - | 1  | - | 0
No. 9 Army |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 8  | - | 2  | - | 0
Drexel |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 8  | - | 2  | - | 0
No. 10 NYU |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 8  | - | 2  | - | 0
Temple |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 7  | - | 1  | - | 2
Lafayette |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 6  | - | 1  | - | 2
Princeton |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 5  | - | 1  | - | 2
CCNY |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 4  | - | 1  | - | 2
Pittsburgh |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 6  | - | 2  | - | 1
Harvard |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 5  | - | 2  | - | 1
Tufts |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 5  | - | 2  | - | 1
Colgate |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 6  | - | 3  | - | 0
Rutgers |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 6  | - | 3  | - | 0
Bucknell |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 5  | - | 2  | - | 3
Columbia |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 5  | - | 3  | - | 1
Boston University |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 3  | - | 3  | - | 2
Cornell |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 3  | - | 3  | - | 2
Syracuse |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 4  | - | 4  | - | 1
Yale |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 4  | - | 4  | - | 0
Fordham |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 4  | - | 5  | - | 0
Franklin & Marshall |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 4  | - | 5  | - | 0
Penn State |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 3  | - | 5  | - | 1
Lehigh |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 3  | - | 6  | - | 0
Washington & Jefferson |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 5  | - | 2
Providence |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 1  | - | 5  | - | 3
Vermont |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 1  | - | 7  | - | 2
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1928 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University as an independent during the 1928 college football season. In its third season under head coach Arnold Horween, Harvard compiled a 5–2–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 125 to 29. Arthur E. French was the team captain.[1][2] The team played its home games at Harvard Stadium in Boston.

## Schedule

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Date| Opponent| Site| Result

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October 6| Springfield|

* Harvard Stadium
* Boston, MA

| W 30–0
October 13| North Carolina|

* Harvard Stadium
* Boston, MA

| W 20–0
October 20|  Army|

* Harvard Stadium
* Boston, MA

| L 0–15
October 27|  Dartmouth|

* Harvard Stadium
* Boston, MA (rivalry)

| W 19–7
November 3| Lehigh|

* Harvard Stadium
* Boston, MA

| W 39–0
November 10| Penn|

* Harvard Stadium
* Boston, MA (rivalry)

| L 0–7
November 17| Holy Cross|

* Harvard Stadium
* Boston, MA

| T 0–0
November 24| at Yale|

* Yale Bowl
* New Haven, CT (rivalry)

| W 17–0

## References

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1. ^ "1928 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved April 10, 2020.
2. ^ "Harvard Football Yearly Records". GoCrimson.com. Harvard University. Archived from the original on August 14, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2014.

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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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