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1907 Harvard Crimson football team

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1907 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–3
Head coach
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
Seasons
← 1906
1908 →
1907 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale     9 0 1
Dartmouth     8 0 1
Penn     11 1 0
Carlisle     10 1 0
Temple     4 0 2
Fordham     6 1 1
Cornell     8 2 0
Western U. of Penn.     8 2 0
Princeton     7 2 0
Washington & Jefferson     7 2 0
Lafayette     7 2 1
Lehigh     7 2 1
Swarthmore     6 2 0
Army     6 2 1
NYU     5 2 0
Vermont     4 1 2
Harvard     7 3 0
Brown     7 3 0
Penn State     6 4 0
Syracuse     5 3 1
Drexel     3 2 2
Colgate     4 4 1
Geneva     4 5 2
Amherst     3 4 1
Tufts     3 4 1
Frankin & Marshall     4 6 0
Rutgers     3 5 1
Springfield Training School     2 4 2
Bucknell     4 7 0
New Hampshire     1 5 2
Villanova     1 5 1
Holy Cross     1 7 2
Wesleyan     1 7 1
Carnegie Tech     1 8 0

The 1907 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1907 college football season. The Crimson finished with a 7–3 record under first-year head coach Joshua Crane.[1][2] Walter Camp selected only one Harvard player, halfback Jack Wendell, as a first-team player on his 1907 College Football All-America Team. Caspar Whitney selected two Harvard players as first-team members of his All-America team: Wendell and center Patrick Grant.[3]

Schedule

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DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28 BowdoinW 5–0
October 2 Maine
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 30–0
October 5 Bates
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 33–4
October 12 Williams
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 18–0
October 19at NavyW 6–0
October 263:00 p.m. Springfield Training School
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 9–512,000[4][5][6]
November 2 Brown
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 6–5
November 9 Carlisle
  • Harvard Stadium,
  • Boston, MA
L 15–23
November 16 Dartmouth
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
L 0–22
November 23 Yale
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
L 0–1240,000[7]

References

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  1. ^ "1907 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. ^ "Casper Whitney Shuns the West: Eleven Eastern Players Picked for All-American Eleven". Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. December 26, 1907.
  4. ^ "Harvard Ought To Win Easily". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 26, 1907. p. 4. Retrieved March 28, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  5. ^ "Day Of Surprises On The Gridiron". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 27, 1907. p. 1. Retrieved March 28, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  6. ^ "Day Of Surprises On The Gridiron (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 27, 1907. p. 12. Retrieved March 28, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  7. ^ "Yale's Greatest Football Season Closes with a Victory Over Harvard at Cambridge Yesterday: Yale Vanquishes Harvard, 12 to 0". The New York Times. November 24, 1907. pp. 29, 30 – via Newspapers.com.