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1886 Harvard Crimson football team

1886 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record12–2
Head coach
CaptainWilliam A. Brooks
Home stadiumJarvis Field
Seasons
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1886 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale   –   9 – 0 – 1
Princeton   –   7 – 0 – 1
Harvard   –   12 – 2 – 0
Lafayette   –   10 – 2 – 0
Williams   –   5 – 1 – 1
Massachusetts   –   2 – 1 – 0
Penn   –   9 – 7 – 1
Lehigh   –   4 – 3 – 1
Dartmouth   –   2 – 2 – 0
Amherst   –   3 – 4 – 0
Rutgers   –   1 – 3 – 0
Wesleyan   –   2 – 6 – 0
MIT   –   2 – 6 – 1
Vermont   –   0 – 1 – 0
Stevens   –   0 – 7 – 1
Tufts   –   0 – 8 – 0
NYU   –   0 – 3 – 0
Swarthmore   –     –  
Trinity (CT)   –     –  

The 1886 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1886 college football season. The team finished with a 12–2 record and outscored opponents 765 to 41 under first-year head coach Frank A. Mason.[1][2] On November 3, 1886, in a game played at Exeter, New Hampshire, the Crimson defeated the team from Phillips Exeter Academy by a score of 158-0, the highest point total ever achieved in a football game to that point.[3] The team's two losses were against rivals Princeton (0–12) and Yale (4–29). Princeton and Yale are recognized by various selectors as the 1886 national champions.

Schedule

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DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 6at Tufts Medford, MAW 82–0 [4]
October 9at MIT
W 54–0 [5]
October 13 Tufts
W 46–0 [6]
October 163:00 p.m. Stevens
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA
W 44–0 [7]
October 20 MIT
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA
W 59–0 [8]
October 23at Andover Andover, MAW 86–0 [9]
October 304:15 p.m. Dartmouth
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA (rivalry)
W 70–075[10]
November 3at Phillips Exeter Exeter, NHW 158–0 [3]
November 6 Wesleyan
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA
W 34–0 [11]
November 8 Harvard alumni
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA
W 38–0
November 132:30 p.m.at Princeton Princeton, NJ (rivalry)L 0–12 [12]
November 17at MIT
  • Union Grounds
  • Boston, MA
W 62–0 [13]
November 202:30 p.m. Yale
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA (rivalry)
L 4–29> 6,000[14][15]
November 25at Penn
W 28–02,000–3,000[16]

References

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  1. ^ "1886 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. ^ a b "By Eighteen Points Harvard's Eleven Breaks the Record: Phillips Exeter Defeated by a Score of 158 Points to 0". The Boston Globe. November 4, 1886. p. 11 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  4. ^ "Foot Ball at Harvard". The Boston Globe. October 7, 1886. p. 16 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  5. ^ "Technology vs. Harvard: An Interesting Game of Foot Ball in Which Harvard is the Winner". The Boston Globe. October 10, 1886. p. 3 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  6. ^ "Fair Harvard Again: Their Foot Ball Eleven Defeat the Tuftonians, 46 to 0". The Boston Globe. October 14, 1886. p. 4 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  7. ^ "The Harvards Again". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 17, 1886. p. 6. Retrieved March 24, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  8. ^ "Harvards Defeat "Techs."". The Boston Globe. October 21, 1886. p. 3 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  9. ^ "Harvard's Kickers Win". The Boston Globe. October 24, 1886. p. 5 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  10. ^ "Football in the Mud". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 31, 1886. p. 6. Retrieved March 21, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  11. ^ "A Game That Counts: Harvard's Foot Ball Players Defeat Wesleyan". The Boston Globe. November 7, 1886. p. 3 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  12. ^ "Winning A Second Victory". The New York Times. November 14, 1886. p. 9.
  13. ^ "Playing in a Cold Rain: Harvard Defeats the Techs on the Union Grounds, 62 Points to 0". The Boston Globe. November 18, 1886. p. 11 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  14. ^ "Again Yale Wins: Harvard's Eleven Out-played by the Veterans". The Boston Globe. November 21, 1886. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "Harvard Beaten By Yale". The New York Times. November 21, 1886. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ "Harvard's Easy Victory". The Times (Philadelphia). November 26, 1886. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.


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