1906 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record10–1
Head coach
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
1906 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Princeton    9 0 1
Yale    9 0 1
Haverford    7 0 2
Harvard    10 1 0
Cornell    8 1 2
Lafayette    8 1 1
Penn State    8 1 1
Washington & Jefferson    9 2 0
Swarthmore    7 2 0
Drexel    6 2 0
Tufts    6 2 0
Penn    7 2 3
Carlisle    9 3 0
Brown    6 3 0
Rutgers    5 2 2
Dartmouth    6 3 1
Syracuse    6 3 0
Colgate    4 2 2
Vermont    5 4 0
Fordham    5 3 0
Western U. of Penn.    6 4 0
Holy Cross    4 3 1
Amherst    3 3 1
Lehigh    5 5 1
Bucknell    3 4 1
Dickinson    3 4 2
Carnegie Tech    2 3 2
Army    3 5 1
Frankin & Marshall    3 5 1
Wesleyan    2 4 1
New Hampshire    2 5 1
Villanova    3 7 0
Springfield Training School    1 5 3
NYU    0 4 0

The 1906 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1906 college football season. The Crimson finished with a 10–1 record under second-year head coach Bill Reid. The team won its first ten games by a combined 167–20 score, but lost its final game against rival Yale by a 6–0 score.[1][2] Walter Camp selected only one Harvard player, guard Francis Burr, as a first-team player on his 1906 College Football All-America Team.[3] Caspar Whitney selected two Harvard players as first-team members of his All-America team: Burr and tackle Charles Osborne.[4]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 22 WilliamsW 7–0
September 26 Bowdoin
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 10–0
September 29 Maine
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 17–0
October 6 Bates
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 27–6
October 13 Massachusetts
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 21–0
October 203:00 p.m. Springfield Training School
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 44–05,000[5][6]
October 27at ArmyW 5–0
November 3 Brown
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 9–5
November 10 Carlisle
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 5–0
November 17 Dartmouth
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 22–9
November 24at Yale L 0–6[7]

References

  1. "1906 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. "Walter Camp Football Foundation". Archived from the original on March 30, 2009.
  4. Caspar Whitney (1907). "The View-Point". Outing. p. 537.
  5. "Will Put Good Eleven On Field". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 20, 1906. p. 11. Retrieved March 26, 2022 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  6. "In A Very Fast And Open Game". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 21, 1906. p. 10. Retrieved March 26, 2022 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  7. "Yale Triumphs, 6-0, By Brainy Football". The Boston Globe. November 25, 1906. p. 1 via Newspapers.com.


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