1898 Harvard Crimson football team

The 1898 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1898 college football season. The team finished with an 11–0 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and National Championship Foundation. Princeton, which finished the 1898 season 11–0–1, was named champion by one selector, Parke H. Davis.[1] The Harvard team outscored their opponents 257 to 19 during the season.[2]

1898 Harvard Crimson football
National champion (Billingsley, Helms, Houlgate, NCF)
Conference	Independent
1898 record	11–0
Head coach	William Cameron Forbes (2nd season)

1898 Eastern college football independents records
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Harvard			–					11	–	0	–	0
Drexel			–					7	–	0	–	0
Princeton			–					11	–	0	–	1
Penn			–					12	–	1	–	0
Buffalo			–					8	–	1	–	0
Cornell			–					10	–	2	–	0
Syracuse			–					8	–	2	–	1
Yale			–					9	–	2	–	0
Wesleyan			–					7	–	3	–	0
Western Penn.			–					5	–	2	–	1
Brown			–					6	–	4	–	0
Carlisle			–					6	–	4	–	0
Penn State			–					6	–	4	–	0
Army			–					3	–	2	–	1
Pittsburgh College			–					5	–	4	–	1
Bucknell			–					4	–	4	–	3
Fordham			–					1	–	1	–	2
Frankin & Marshall			–					4	–	4	–	2
New Hampshire			–					4	–	4	–	0
Amherst			–					4	–	5	–	1
Villanova			–					2	–	4	–	1
Lehigh			–					3	–	6	–	1
Boston College			–					2	–	5	–	1
Colgate			–					2	–	5	–	1
Temple			–					2	–	5	–	0
Lafayette			–					3	–	8	–	0
Geneva			–					1	–	4	–	1
NYU			–					1	–	3	–	0
Rutgers			–					1	–	6	–	1
Tufts			–					1	–	9	–	0

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
October 1	Dartmouth	Cambridge, MA (rivalry)	W 21–0
October 1	Williams	Cambridge, MA	W 11–0
October 5	Bowdoin	Cambridge, MA	W 28–6
October 12	Amherst	Cambridge, MA	W 53–2
October 15	at Army	The Plain West Point, NY	W 28–0
October 19	Newton AC	Cambridge, MA	W 22–0
October 22	Chicago Athletic Association	Cambridge, MA	W 39–0
October 29	Carlisle	Cambridge, MA	W 11–5
November 5	Penn	Cambridge, MA (rivalry)	W 10–0
November 12	Brown	Cambridge, MA	W 17–6
November 19	at Yale	Yale Field New Haven, CT (rivalry)	W 17–0

References

1. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
2. "1898 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.