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1911 Harvard Crimson football team

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1911 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–2–1
Head coach
CaptainBob Fisher
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
Seasons
← 1910
1912 →
1911 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn State     8 0 1
Carlisle     11 1 0
Princeton     8 0 2
Trinity (CT)     6 0 2
Temple     6 1 0
Army     6 1 1
Swarthmore     6 1 1
Dartmouth     8 2 0
Lafayette     8 2 0
Yale     7 2 1
Harvard     6 2 1
Cornell     7 3 0
Rhode Island State     5 2 1
Brown     7 3 1
Bucknell     6 3 1
Penn     7 4 0
Pittsburgh     4 3 1
Washington & Jefferson     6 4 0
Syracuse     5 3 2
Dickinson     4 4 0
Lehigh     5 5 1
Rutgers     4 4 1
Dickinson     4 4 0
St. Bonaventure     2 2 0
Carnegie Tech     4 5 0
Holy Cross     4 5 0
Tufts     3 4 0
Vermont     3 5 0
NYU     1 3 3
Colgate     3 6 0
Franklin & Marshall     3 6 0
Geneva     1 6 1
Villanova     0 5 1
Boston College     0 7 0

The 1911 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1911 college football season. The Crimson finished with a 6–2–1 record under fourth-year head coach Percy Haughton.[1][2] Walter Camp selected two Harvard players, guard Bob Fisher and halfback Percy Wendell, as first-team members of his 1911 College Football All-America Team.[3]

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 30 BatesW 15–0
October 7 Holy Cross
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 8–0
October 14 Williams
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 18–0
October 21 Amherst
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 11–0
October 28 Brown
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 20–6
November 4at PrincetonL 6–8[4]
November 11 Carlisle
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
L 15–18
November 18 Dartmouth
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 5–3
November 25 Yale
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
T 0–0

References

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  1. ^ "1911 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. ^ "Walter Camp Picks All-American Team: Unquestioned Football Authority of Country Selects Best Men". The Lexington Herald. December 10, 1911.
  4. ^ "Princeton Humbles Harvard's Eleven: Orange and Black Wins First Big Game of the Season by the Close Score of 8 to 6". The New York Times. November 5, 1911. p. 31 – via Newspapers.com.