1902 Harvard Crimson football team

The 1902 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1902 college football season. The Crimson finished with an 11–1 record under first-year head coach John Wells Farley. The 1902 team won its first eleven games by a combined 184–23 score. It then closed the season with a 23–0 loss against rival Yale.[1][2] Walter Camp selected two Harvard players as first-team selections to his 1902 College Football All-America Team. They were end Edward Bowditch and fullback Thomas Graydon.[3]

1902 Harvard Crimson football
Conference	Independent
1902 record	11–1
Head coach	John Wells Farley (1st season)
Home stadium	Soldiers' Field

1902 Eastern college football independents records
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Yale			–					11	–	0	–	1
Geneva			–					7	–	0	–	0
Harvard			–					11	–	1	–	0
Princeton			–					8	–	1	–	0
Army			–					6	–	1	–	1
Frankin & Marshall			–					7	–	2	–	0
Dartmouth			–					6	–	2	–	1
Holy Cross			–					6	–	2	–	1
Syracuse			–					6	–	2	–	1
Carlisle			–					8	–	3	–	0
Cornell			–					8	–	3	–	0
Lafayette			–					8	–	3	–	0
Amherst			–					7	–	3	–	0
Penn State			–					7	–	3	–	0
Penn			–					9	–	4	–	0
Lehigh			–					7	–	3	–	1
Colgate			–					5	–	3	–	1
NYU			–					5	–	3	–	0
Columbia			–					6	–	4	–	1
Bucknell			–					6	–	4	–	0
Villanova			–					4	–	3	–	0
Brown			–					5	–	4	–	1
Western U. of Penn.			–					5	–	6	–	1
New Hampshire			–					2	–	3	–	1
Tufts			–					4	–	6	–	1
Fordham			–					2	–	4	–	1
Wesleyan			–					3	–	6	–	1
Rutgers			–					3	–	7	–	0
Navy			–					2	–	7	–	1
Drexel			–					1	–	4	–	1
Temple			–					1	–	4	–	1
Pittsburgh College			–					1	–	6	–	0
Boston College			–					0	–	8	–	0

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 27	Williams	Soldiers' Field Cambridge, MA	W 11–0	1,500	[4]
October 1	Bowdoin	Soldiers' Field Cambridge, MA	W 17–6	500	[5]
October 4	Bates	Soldiers' Field Cambridge, MA	W 23–0	4,500–5,000	[6]
October 8	Amherst	Soldiers' Field Cambridge, MA	W 6–0	4,000	[7]
October 11	Maine	Soldiers' Field Cambridge, MA	W 22–0	> 5,000	[8]
October 15	Wesleyan	Soldiers' Field Cambridge, MA	W 35–5	5,000	[9]
October 18	at Army	The Plain West Point, NY	W 14–6		[10]
October 25	Brown	Soldiers' Field Cambridge, MA	W 6–0	>20,000	[11]
November 1	Carlisle	Soldiers' Field Cambridge, MA	W 23–0	16,000	[12]
November 8	Penn	Soldiers' Field Cambridge, MA (rivalry)	W 11–0	> 16,000	[13]
November 15	Dartmouth	Soldiers' Field Cambridge, MA (rivalry)	W 16–6	10,000	[14]
November 22	at Yale	Yale Field New Haven, CT (rivalry)	L 0–23	30,000	[15]

References

1. "1902 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. Michael MacCambridge, Dan Jenkins (2005). ESPN College Football Encyclopedia: The Complete History of College Football from 1869 to the Present. p. 1145.
4. "Only 11 Points: Harvard Plays Poorly Against Williams Team". The Boston Globe. September 28, 1902. p. 1 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
5. "Small Colleges Score on Harvard and Yale". Boston Post. October 2, 1902. p. 3 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
6. "Harvard Defeats Bates 23 to 0". The Boston Globe. October 5, 1902. p. 10 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
7. "Harvard Barely Beats Amherst". The Boston Globe. October 9, 1902. p. 5 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
8. "With Many Subs Harvard Defeats University of Maine 22 to 0". The Boston Globe. October 12, 1902. p. 9 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
9. "Harvard Varsity Overwhelms Wesleyan in the First Half". The Boston Globe. October 16, 1902. p. 3 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
10. "Harvard Beat Cadets". The Boston Globe. October 19, 1902. p. 5 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
11. "Harvard 6, Brown 0: Providence Gives Players Crimson a Bad Scare". Boston Post. October 26, 1902. p. 1 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
12. "Harvard 23, Carlisle 0: Unusually Spectacular Football on Soldiers Field". The Boston Globe. November 2, 1902. p. 1 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
13. "Penn Puts Up a Plucky Fight: Harvard Wins, But Only by a Score of 11 to 0". The Boston Globe. November 9, 1902. p. 1 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
14. "Dartmouth Scares Harvard". The Boston Globe. November 16, 1902. pp. 1, 5 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
15. "Yale 23, Harvard 0: Crimson Outclassed at Every Stage; 30,000 Saw Game". Boston Post. November 23, 1902. p. 1 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.