American college football season
The 1890 Harvard Crimson football team was an American football team that represented Harvard University in the 1890 college football season . The team finished with an 11–0 record, shut out nine of eleven opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 555 to 12.[ 1]
The team also won Harvard's first national championship , receiving retroactive recognition as national champion from the Billingsley Report , Helms Athletic Foundation , Houlgate System , National Championship Foundation , and Parke H. Davis .[ 2] On November 22, Harvard defeated Walter Camp 's previously-unbeaten Yale Bulldogs to secure the championship; it was Harvard's first football victory over Yale since 1875.[ 3] Harvard did not play Princeton (11–1–1) during the 1890 season.
Five Harvard players were selected by Caspar Whitney to the 1890 All-America college football team : quarterback Dudley Dean ; halfback John J. Corbett ; end Frank Hallowell ; center John Cranston ; and tackle Marshall Newell .[ 4] Other players included end and team captain Arthur Cumnock , halfback James P. Lee , Herb Alward , Hiland Orlando Stickney , Bernard Trafford , and tackle Joshua Damon Upton . George A. Stewart and George C. Adams were the team's coaches.
Schedule
Date Time Opponent Site Result Attendance Source October 1 Phillips Exeter W 41–0[ 5]
October 4 Dartmouth Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA (rivalry ) W 45–0[ 6]
October 11 Amherst Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA W 74–6[ 7]
October 18 Williams Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA W 38–0[ 8]
October 22 Dartmouth Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA W 64–0[ 9]
October 25 Bowdoin Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA W 54–0[ 10]
October 29 Wesleyan Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA W 55–0[ 11]
November 1 Cornell Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA W 77–0[ 12]
November 4 Orange Athletic Club Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA W 33–0[ 13]
November 12 vs. Amherst W 64–0500 [ 14] [ 15]
November 22 2:30 p.m. vs. Yale W 12–615,000–17,000 [ 3] [ 16] [ 17] [ 18]
Gallery of Harvard players
James P. Lee
John Corbett
Arthur Cumnock
Dudley Dean
Marshall Newell
References
^ "1890 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results" . SR/College Football . Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved May 20, 2020 .
^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF) . NCAA Division I Football Records . NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016 .
^ a b "Crimson: Even Ladies, Who Blushed" . The Boston Globe . November 23, 1890. pp. 1, 4.
^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF) . National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017 .
^ "Toyed With Exeter: Harvard's First Foot Ball Game" . The Boston Globe . October 2, 1890. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Drops and Punts: Harvard Too Clever for Dartmouth" . The Boston Globe . October 5, 1890. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Amherst Scored: Fumbling Game on Jarvis Field" . The Boston Globe . October 12, 1890. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Lee's Runs Saved the Day for Crimson" . The Boston Globe . October 19, 1890. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Around the End: Harvard Punts and Kicks Herself to Victory" . The Boston Globe . October 23, 1890. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Artful Sherwin: Always in the Maine Men's Way" . The Boston Globe . October 26, 1890. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Rain, Mud and Foot Ball" . The Boston Globe . October 30, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Good Old Points: Touch 'Em Down and Kick Your Goals" . The Boston Globe . November 2, 1890. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "An Easy Victory Over Orange: Harvard Scores Thirty-Three Points To the Jersey Players' Nothing" . New York Tribune . November 5, 1890. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Rush, Run and Punt: Harvard Science Against Amherst Beef" . The Boston Globe . November 13, 1890. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Harvard And Yale—The Crimson Eleven Shown Yesterday at Springfield in the Amherst Game" . The Meriden Daily Journal . Meriden, Connecticut . November 13, 1890. p. 2. Retrieved March 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Coming of the Thousands" . The Boston Globe . November 23, 1890. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Harvard's Jubilee: Her Team Defeats Yale in the Great Football Game at Springfield" . New York Tribune . November 23, 1890. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Yale Whipped By Harvard" . The Sun . New York, New York . November 23, 1890. p. 8. Retrieved March 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
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