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1915 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–1
Head coach
CaptainEddie Mahan
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
Seasons← 19141916 →
1915 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Cornell   –   9 – 0 – 0
Pittsburgh   –   8 – 0 – 0
Columbia   –   5 – 0 – 0
Harvard   –   8 – 1 – 0
Carnegie Tech   –   7 – 1 – 0
Rutgers   –   7 – 1 – 0
Villanova   –   6 – 1 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   8 – 1 – 1
Colgate   –   5 – 1 – 0
Syracuse   –   9 – 1 – 2
Dartmouth   –   7 – 1 – 1
Tufts   –   5 – 1 – 2
Penn State   –   7 – 2 – 0
Lafayette   –   8 – 3 – 0
Princeton   –   6 – 2 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   6 – 2 – 0
Temple   –   3 – 1 – 1
Geneva   –   6 – 3 – 0
Wesleyan   –   6 – 3 – 0
Allegheny   –   5 – 3 – 0
Swarthmore   –   5 – 3 – 0
Army   –   5 – 3 – 1
Lehigh   –   6 – 4 – 0
Holy Cross   –   3 – 2 – 2
Brown   –   5 – 4 – 1
Fordham   –   4 – 4 – 0
NYU   –   4 – 4 – 1
Middlebury   –   3 – 4 – 2
Muhlenberg   –   4 – 5 – 0
Yale   –   4 – 5 – 0
Boston College   –   3 – 4 – 0
Penn   –   3 – 5 – 2
WPI   –   3 – 5 – 1
Buffalo   –   3 – 5 – 0
Carlisle   –   3 – 6 – 2
Rhode Island State   –   3 – 5 – 0
New Hampshire   –   3 – 6 – 1
Gettysburg   –   3 – 6 – 0
Rochester   –   3 – 6 – 0
Bucknell   –   2 – 6 – 3
Vermont   –   1 – 4 – 2
Williams   –   1 – 7 – 0

The 1915 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1915 college football season. The Crimson finished with an 8–1 record under eighth-year head coach Percy Haughton. The sole loss was a 10–0 defeat against Cornell. Walter Camp selected three Harvard players (tackle Joseph Gilman, halfback Richard King and fullback Eddie Mahan) as first-team members of his 1915 College Football All-America Team.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 25 ColbyW 39–6
October 2 Massachusetts
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 7–0
October 9 Carlisle
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 29–7
October 16 Virginia
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 9–0
October 23 Cornell
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
L 0–1025,000
October 30 Penn State
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 13–022,000
November 6at PrincetonW 10–6
November 13 Brown
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 16–7
November 20 Yale
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 41–049,000

References

  1. "1915 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. "Harvard full back beats U. of VA., 9–0". The New York Times. October 17, 1915. Retrieved July 2, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. Melville E. Webb Jr. (October 24, 1915). "Ithaca Wins After 25 Years of Trying". The Boston Globe. pp. 1, 17 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Harvard Rips Yale to Bits; Wins 41 to 0". New York Tribune. November 21, 1915. pp. 1, 11 – via Newspapers.com.
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