1902 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record11–1
Head coach
Home stadiumSoldiers' Field
1902 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Ursinus   –  9 –0 –0
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
Vermont   –  5 –3 –2
Colgate   –  5 –3 –1
NYU   –  5 –3 –0
Bucknell   –  6 –4 –0
Washington & Jefferson   –  6 –4 –0
Columbia   –  6 –4 –1
Springfield Training School   –  3 –2 –1
Villanova   –  4 –3 –0
Brown   –  5 –4 –1
Swarthmore   –  6 –6 –0
Western U. of Penn.   –  5 –6 –1
New Hampshire   –  2 –3 –1
Buffalo   –  3 –5 –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

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]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 27 Williams
W 11–01,500[4]
October 1 Bowdoin
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 17–6500[5]
October 4 Bates
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 23–04,500–5,000[6]
October 8 Amherst
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 6–04,000[7]
October 11 Maine
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 22–0> 5,000[8]
October 15 Wesleyan
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 35–55,000[9]
October 18at Army
W 14–6 [10]
October 25 Brown
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 6–0>20,000[11]
November 1 Carlisle
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA
W 23–016,000[12]
November 8 Penn
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 11–0> 16,000[13]
November 15 Dartmouth
  • Soldiers' Field
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 16–610,000[14]
November 22at Yale
L 0–2330,000[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.


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