American college football season
The 1912 Harvard Crimson football team was an American football team that represented Harvard University as an independent during the 1912 college football season . In their fifth season under head coach Percy Haughton , the Crimson compiled a perfect 9–0 record, shut out five of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 176 to 22.[ 1]
There was no contemporaneous system in 1912 for determining a national champion . However, Harvard was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report , Helms Athletic Foundation , Houlgate System , and Parke H. Davis , and as a co-national champion by the National Championship Foundation .[ 2]
Percy Wendell was the team captain. Three Harvard players were consensus first-team selections on the 1912 All-American football team : halfback Charles Brickley , guard Stan Pennock , and end Sam Felton .[ 3] Huntington Hardwick , and Henry Burchell Gardner, and linemen Bob Storer , Harvey Hitchcock , Derric Choate Parmenter, Gerard Timothy Driscoll, and Francis Joseph O'Brien. Pennock, Wendell, and Hardwick were later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame .[ 4] [ 5] [ 6]
Schedule
Date Opponent Site Result Attendance Source September 28 Maine W 7–0[ 7] October 5 Holy Cross Harvard Stadium Boston, MA W 19–07,000 [ 8] October 12 Williams Harvard Stadium Boston, MA W 26–3[ 9] October 19 Amherst Harvard Stadium Boston, MA W 46–0[ 10] October 26 Brown Harvard Stadium Boston, MA W 30–10> 15,000 [ 11] November 2 Princeton Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry ) W 16–630,000 [ 12] November 9 Vanderbilt Harvard Stadium Boston, MA W 9–3[ 13] November 16 Dartmouth Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry ) W 3–0> 40,000 [ 14] November 23 at Yale W 20–0[ 15]
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References
^ a b "1912 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results" . SR/College Football . Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017 .^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF) . NCAA Division I Football Records . NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 4, 2016 . ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF) . National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017 .^ "Percy Wendell" . National Football Foundation. Retrieved March 26, 2022 .^ "Stan Pennock" . National Football Foundation. Retrieved March 26, 2022 .^ "Huntington "Tack" Hardwick" . National Football Foundation. Retrieved March 26, 2022 .^ "Harvard Is Held To a 7 to 0 Win: Maine Comes Close to a Tie, But Ball Hits Goal Post" . The Boston Globe . September 29, 1912. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com .^ "Harvard Finds Holy Cross Easy" . The Boston Sunday Globe Newspapers.com .^ "Williams Scores Against Harvard: Field Goal by Michaels Makes Final Result 26 to 3" . The Boston Globe . October 13, 1912. p. 18 – via Newspapers.com .^ "Harvard Has an Easy One: Amherst, Never in Running, Beaten by 46 to 0" . The Boston Globe . October 20, 1912. pp. 1, 16 – via Newspapers.com .^ "Easy for Harvard, 30-10" . The Boston Globe . October 27, 1912. pp. 1, 8 – via Newspapers.com .^ Melville E. Webb Jr. (November 3, 1912). "Double Knot in Tiger's Tail: Brickley Hero of Harvard's 16-to-6 Triumph" . The Boston Globe . p. 1 – via Newspapers.com . ^ "Harvard by 9 to 3: Vanderbilt in Poor Trim" . The Boston Globe . November 10, 1912. pp. 1, 16 – via Newspapers.com .^ "Harvard the Winner, 3 to 0: Goal by Brickley Spells Defeat For Green" . The Boston Globe . November 17, 1913. pp. 1, 10 – via Newspapers.com .^ W.D. Sullivan (November 24, 1912). "Yale Played Off Its Feet by Harvard, Getting Worst Beating in 11 Years, 20-0" . The Boston Globe . pp. 1, 10 – via Newspapers.com .
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