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1904 Harvard Crimson football team

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1904 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–2–1
Head coach
CaptainDaniel Hurley
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
Seasons
← 1903
1905 →
1904 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn     12 0 0
Western U. of Penn.     10 0 0
Dartmouth     7 0 1
Yale     10 1 0
Amherst     9 1 0
Colgate     8 1 1
Carlisle     10 2 0
Lafayette     8 2 0
Princeton     8 2 0
Army     7 2 0
Fordham     4 1 1
Harvard     7 2 1
Dickinson     8 3 1
Columbia     7 3 0
Cornell     7 3 0
Villanova     4 2 1
Syracuse     6 3 0
Swarthmore     6 3 0
Washington & Jefferson     5 3 1
Penn State     6 4 0
Temple     3 2 0
Brown     6 5 0
Bucknell     3 3 0
Springfield Training School     4 4 1
NYU     3 6 0
Holy Cross     2 5 2
Wesleyan     3 7 0
Geneva     1 4 2
Vermont     1 5 2
New Hampshire     2 5 0
Rutgers     1 6 2
Tufts     2 9 1
Lehigh     1 8 0
Frankin & Marshall     0 10 0
Harvard Stadium during Harvard vs. Yale in 1904

The 1904 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1903 college football season. The Crimson finished with a 7–2–1 record under first-year head coach Edgar Wrightington.[1][2] Walter Camp selected only one Harvard player, halfback Daniel Hurley, as a first-team selection to his 1904 College Football All-America Team.[3]

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28 WilliamsW 24–0
October 5 Bowdoin
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 17–0
October 8 Maine
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 23–0
October 12 Bates
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 11–0
October 15at ArmyW 4–0
October 22 Carlisle
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 12–0
October 29 Penn
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
L 0–1115,000[4]
November 5 Dartmouth
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
T 0–0
November 12 Holy Cross
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 28–57,000[5]
November 19at YaleL 0–12

References

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  1. ^ "1904 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 Idea Of Football Stars: Yale Coach Puts Two Western Men in His Selection". The Daily Review (Decatur, IL). December 28, 1904.
  4. ^ "Pennsy Defeats Harvard 11 to 0: Crimson Loses to the Red and Blue for the First Time in Seven Years". The Boston Sunday Globe. October 30, 1904. pp. 1, 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Harvard 28, Holy Cross 5". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. November 13, 1904. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.