1889 Harvard Crimson football team

The 1889 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1889 college football season. The Crimson finished with a 9–2 record. The team won its first ten games by a combined score of 404–6, but lost its last two games, against Princeton and Yale, giving up 41 points against Princeton.^[1][2]

1889 Harvard Crimson football
Conference	Independent
Record	9–2
Head coach	None
Captain	Arthur Cumnock
Home stadium	Jarvis Field
Seasons ← 1888 1890 →

1889 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Princeton			–					10	–	0	–	0
Massachusetts			–					2	–	0	–	0
Yale			–					15	–	1	–	0
Harvard			–					9	–	2	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					5	–	1	–	1
Dickinson			–					4	–	1	–	1
Navy			–					4	–	1	–	1
Tufts			–					3	–	1	–	0
Lehigh			–					8	–	3	–	2
Cornell			–					8	–	4	–	0
Penn			–					7	–	6	–	0
Brown			–					2	–	2	–	0
Penn State			–					2	–	2	–	0
Delaware			–					1	–	1	–	1
Wesleyan			–					5	–	7	–	1
Bucknell			–					2	–	3	–	1
Lafayette			–					3	–	4	–	2
Columbia			–					2	–	7	–	2
Fordham			–					1	–	3	–	0
Rutgers			–					1	–	4	–	0
NYU			–					0	–	2	–	0

Three Harvard players were selected as first-team players on the 1889 College Football All-America Team: end and team Arthur Cumnock, halfback James P. Lee, and guard John Cranston.^[3]

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 2		Phillips Exeter	Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA	W 28–0		[4]
October 5		Stevens	Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA	W 28–4		[5]
October 12		Dartmouth	Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA (rivalry)	W 38–0		[6]
October 16	4:00 p.m.	MIT	Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA	W 62–0		[7][8]
October 19		Williams	Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA	W 41–0		[9]
October 23		Phillips Academy	Cambridge, MA	W 41–0		[10]
October 26	3:15 p.m.	Wesleyan	Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA	W 64–0		[11]
November 2		Penn	Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA	W 35–0	2,000	[12][13]
November 9		vs. Wesleyan	Hampden Park Springfield, MA	W 67–2		[14]
November 16	2:45 p.m.	Princeton	Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA (rivalry)	L 15–41	10,000	[15][16][17]
November 23	2:00 p.m.	vs. Yale	Hampden Park Springfield, MA (rivalry)	L 0–6	15,000	[18][19]

References

1. "1889 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. "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
4. "Over Exeter's Goal". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 3, 1889. p. 7. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
5. "Touchdown For Stevens". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 6, 1889. p. 2. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
6. "Harvard's Goal". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 13, 1889. p. 2. Retrieved March 21, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
7. "Harvard's Best Game". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 17, 1889. p. 2. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
8. "College Sports". Boston Evening Transcript. Boston, Massachusetts. October 17, 1889. p. 3. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
9. "Punting For Points". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 20, 1889. p. 6. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
10. "Harvard Had Hard Work". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 24, 1889. p. 3. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
11. "Crimson Punters Won". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 27, 1889. p. 2. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
12. "Harvard Beats Pennsylvania". The New York Times. November 3, 1889. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
13. "Foot-ball On Saturday". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. November 4, 1889. p. 1. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
14. "Harvard Defeats Wesleyan". The New York Times. November 10, 1889. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
15. "Jersey Sand". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 17, 1889. p. 1. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
16. "Jersey Sand (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 17, 1889. p. 4. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
17. "Harvard Went To Pieces". The New York Times. November 17, 1889. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
18. "Yale Wins From Harvard". The New York Times. November 24, 1889. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
19. "Leather Chasing". Brooklyn Citizen. Brooklyn, New York. November 24, 1889. p. 3. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .