1920 Harvard Crimson football team

1920 Harvard Crimson football
Co-national champion (Boand)
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–0–1
Head coach
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
Seasons
← 1919
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1920 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Boston College   –   8 – 0 – 0
Harvard   –   8 – 0 – 1
Princeton   –   6 – 0 – 1
Penn State   –   7 – 0 – 2
Pittsburgh   –   6 – 0 – 2
Army   –   7 – 2 – 0
Dartmouth   –   7 – 2 – 0
Cornell   –   6 – 2 – 0
Syracuse   –   6 – 2 – 1
Geneva   –   5 – 2 – 1
New Hampshire   –   5 – 2 – 1
Brown   –   6 – 3 – 0
Bucknell   –   6 – 3 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   6 – 3 – 1
Penn   –   6 – 4 – 0
Carnegie Tech   –   5 – 3 – 0
Lafayette   –   5 – 3 – 0
Holy Cross   –   5 – 3 – 0
Williams   –   5 – 3 – 0
Yale   –   5 – 3 – 0
Fordham   –   4 – 3 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   3 – 2 – 2
Boston University   –   4 – 3 – 1
Columbia   –   4 – 4 – 0
Duquesne   –   3 – 3 – 1
Vermont   –   3 – 5 – 0
NYU   –   2 – 5 – 1
Rhode Island State   –   0 – 4 – 4
Tufts   –   2 – 6 – 0
Rutgers   –   2 – 7 – 0
Buffalo   –   1 – 4 – 0
Colgate   –   1 – 5 – 2
Villanova   –   1 – 5 – 1
Drexel   –   0 – 6 – 0

The 1920 Harvard Crimson football team was an American football team that represented Harvard University as an independent during the 1920 college football season. In its second year under head coach Bob Fisher, the Crimson compiled an 8–0–1 record, shut out seven of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 208 to 28.[1]

There was no contemporaneous system in 1920 for determining a national champion. However, Harvard was retroactively named as the co-national champion by the Boand System. The majority of selectors have chosen California (9–0 record) as the national champion for 1920.[2]

Harvard guard Tom Woods was selected as consensus first-team player on the 1920 All-America team.[3] Other notable players on the 1920 Harvard team included halfback George Owen, fullback Arnold Horween, back Frederic Cameron Church Jr., center Charles Frederick Havemeyer, guard James Randolph Tolbert, and tackle Robert Minturn Sedgwick.

Schedule

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DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 25Holy Cross
W 3–010,000[4]
October 2Maine
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 41–010,000[5]
October 9Valparaiso
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 21–017,000[6]
October 16Williams
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 38–018,000[7]
October 23Centre
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 31–1440,000[8]
October 30Virginia
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 24–0[9]
November 6Princeton
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
T 14–1444,000[10][11]
November 132:00 p.m.Brown
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 27–030,000–35,000[12][13][14][15][16]
November 20at Yale
W 9–0close to 80,000[17]

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References

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  1. ^ a b "1920 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 8, 2016.
  3. ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  4. ^ Melville E. Webb Jr (September 26, 1920). "Field Goal Wins for Harvard, 3-0: Holy Cross Puts Up Hard Fight Against Crimson". The Boston Globe. pp. 1, 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ Melville E. Webb Jr (October 3, 1920). "Harvard's Smashing Attack Crushes Maine: Visitors Shut Out, 41-0, Before 10,000 Crowd in Stadium". The Boston Globe. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ Melville E. Webb Jr. (October 10, 1920). "17,000 See Westerners Beaten by Harvard, 21-0: Valparaiso Provides Nothing of the Expected Spectacular". The Boston Globe. pp. 1, 15 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Williams Crushed by Harvard Attack 38-0". The Boston Globe. October 17, 1920. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ W.D. Sullivan (October 24, 1920). "Harvard Crushes Centre in Thrilling Game, 31-14". The Boston Globe. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ Melville E. Webb Jr. (October 31, 1920). "Harvard Has No Easy Time With Virginia: Subs Score Twice in Final Period, Winning 24-0". The Boston Globe. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Harvard Battles To Tie With Tigers". The New York Times. November 7, 1920. p. Sports 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Great Crowd Sees Gridiron Contest". The New York Times. November 7, 1920 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Harvard Subs Face Brown". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 13, 1920. p. 5. Retrieved March 18, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  13. ^ Hallahan, John J. (November 13, 1920). "Crimson Runs Up Big Total Easily". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 1. Retrieved March 18, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  14. ^ Hallahan, John J. (November 13, 1920). "Crimson Runs Up Big Total Easily (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 15. Retrieved March 18, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  15. ^ Vaugh, Wilton (November 14, 1920). "Harvard Subs Vanquish Brown In One-Sided Contest, 27 To 0". The Boston Post. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 19. Retrieved March 18, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  16. ^ Vaugh, Wilton (November 14, 1920). "Harvard Crushes Brown Team, 27–0 (continued)". The Boston Post. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 21. Retrieved March 18, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  17. ^ "Crimson Defeats Yale By Score of 9-0: Crimson Machine Held By Savage Defense of Yale". The Hartford Courant. November 21, 1920. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.


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