1889 Harvard Crimson football team

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]

1889 Harvard Crimson football
Conference	Independent
1889 record	9–2
Head coach	None
Captain	Arthur Cumnock
Home stadium	Jarvis Field

1889 Eastern college football independents records
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Princeton			–					10	–	0	–	0
Yale			–					15	–	1	–	0
Dartmouth			–					7	–	1	–	0
Harvard			–					9	–	2	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					5	–	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
Amherst			–					3	–	5	–	2
Lafayette			–					3	–	4	–	2
Columbia			–					2	–	7	–	2
Fordham			–					1	–	3	–	0
Rutgers			–					1	–	4	–	0

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

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 2	Phillips Exeter	Cambridge, MA	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 16	MIT	Cambridge, MA	W 62–0
October 19	Williams	Cambridge, MA	W 41–0
October 23	Andover	Cambridge, MA	W 41–0
October 26	Wesleyan	Cambridge, MA	W 64–0
November 2	Penn	Cambridge, MA	W 35–0		[7]
November 9	vs. Wesleyan	Springfield, MA	W 67–2		[8]
November 16	Princeton	Cambridge, MA (rivalry)	L 15–41		[9]
November 23	vs. Yale	Hampden Park Springfield, MA (rivalry)	L 0–6	15,000	[10]

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. "Football at Harvard: First Game of the Season -- Exeter Defeated". The Boston Globe. October 3, 1889. p. 8 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
5. "Touchdown for Stevens: Harvard Fails to Shut Out Light Men". The Boston Globe. October 6, 1889 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
6. "Harvard's Goal: Dartmouth Eleven Easily Defeated -- Score 38 to 0". The Boston Globe. October 13, 1889. p. 2 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
7. "Harvard Beats Pennsylvania". The New York Times. November 3, 1889. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
8. "Harvard Defeats Wesleyan". The New York Times. November 10, 1889. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
9. "Harvard Went To Pieces". The New York Times. November 17, 1889. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
10. "Yale Wins From Harvard". The New York Times. November 24, 1889. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.