1889 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–2
Head coach
  • None
CaptainArthur Cumnock
Home stadiumJarvis Field
1889 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Princeton   –  10 –0 –0
Massachusetts   –  2 –0 –0
Yale   –  15 –1 –0
Harvard   –  9 –2 –0
Franklin & Marshall   –  5 –1 –1
Dickinson   –  4 –1 –1
Navy   –  4 –1 –1
Tufts   –  3 –1 –0
Lehigh   –  8 –3 –2
Cornell   –  8 –4 –0
Penn   –  7 –6 –0
Brown   –  2 –2 –0
Penn State   –  2 –2 –0
Delaware   –  1 –1 –1
Wesleyan   –  5 –7 –1
Bucknell   –  2 –3 –1
Lafayette   –  3 –4 –2
Columbia   –  2 –7 –2
Fordham   –  1 –3 –0
Rutgers   –  1 –4 –0
NYU   –  0 –2 –0

The 1889 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1889 college football season. The Crimson finished with a 9–2 record. The team won its first ten games by a combined score of 404–6, but lost its last two games, against Princeton and Yale, giving up 41 points against Princeton.[1][2]

Three Harvard players were selected as first-team players on the 1889 College Football All-America Team: end and team Arthur Cumnock, halfback James P. Lee, and guard John Cranston.[3]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2 Phillips Exeter
W 28–0 [4]
October 5 Stevens
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA
W 28–4 [5]
October 12 Dartmouth
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA (rivalry)
W 38–0 [6]
October 164:00 p.m. MIT
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA
W 62–0 [7][8]
October 19 Williams
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA
W 41–0 [9]
October 23 Phillips Academy Cambridge, MAW 41–0 [10]
October 263:15 p.m. Wesleyan
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA
W 64–0 [11]
November 2 Penn
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA
W 35–02,000[12][13]
November 9vs. Wesleyan
W 67–2 [14]
November 162:45 p.m. Princeton
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA (rivalry)
L 15–4110,000[15][16][17]
November 232:00 p.m.vs. Yale
  • Hampden Park
  • Springfield, MA (rivalry)
L 0–615,000[18][19]

References

  1. ↑ "1889 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. ↑ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Over Exeter's Goal". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 3, 1889. p. 7. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  5. ↑ "Touchdown For Stevens". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 6, 1889. p. 2. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  6. ↑ "Harvard's Goal". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 13, 1889. p. 2. Retrieved March 21, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  7. ↑ "Harvard's Best Game". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 17, 1889. p. 2. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  8. ↑ "College Sports". Boston Evening Transcript. Boston, Massachusetts. October 17, 1889. p. 3. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  9. ↑ "Punting For Points". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 20, 1889. p. 6. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  10. ↑ "Harvard Had Hard Work". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 24, 1889. p. 3. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  11. ↑ "Crimson Punters Won". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 27, 1889. p. 2. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  12. ↑ "Harvard Beats Pennsylvania". The New York Times. November 3, 1889. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ↑ "Foot-ball On Saturday". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. November 4, 1889. p. 1. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  14. ↑ "Harvard Defeats Wesleyan". The New York Times. November 10, 1889. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ↑ "Jersey Sand". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 17, 1889. p. 1. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  16. ↑ "Jersey Sand (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 17, 1889. p. 4. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  17. ↑ "Harvard Went To Pieces". The New York Times. November 17, 1889. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ↑ "Yale Wins From Harvard". The New York Times. November 24, 1889. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ↑ "Leather Chasing". Brooklyn Citizen. Brooklyn, New York. November 24, 1889. p. 3. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.


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