American college football season
The Crimson defeated Cornell, 35-22 The 2019 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University during the 2019 NCAA Division I FCS football season as a member of the Ivy League . They were led by 26th-year head coach Tim Murphy and played their home games at Harvard Stadium . They finished the season 4–6 overall and 2–5 in Ivy League play to tie for sixth place. Harvard averaged 10,812 fans per game.
Preseason [ edit ] Preseason media poll [ edit ] The Ivy League released their preseason media poll on August 8, 2019. The Crimson were picked to finish in fourth place.[1]
Predicted finish Team Votes (1st place) 1 Yale 119 (9) 2 Dartmouth 111 (2) 3 Princeton 107 (4) 4 Harvard 93 (1) 5 Penn 67 6 Columbia 61 (1) 7 Cornell 29 8 Brown 24
Schedule [ edit ] Date Time Opponent Site TV Result Attendance September 21 4:00 pm at San Diego * WCC Network L 23–312,607 September 27 7:00 p.m. Brown ESPNews W 42–710,088 October 5 1:00 p.m. Howard * Harvard Stadium Boston, MA ESPN+ W 62–178,234 October 12 1:00 p.m. Cornell Harvard Stadium Boston, MA ESPN+ W 35–227,513 October 19 1:00 p.m. at Holy Cross * PLN W 31–2110,381 October 26 1:00 p.m. at No. 13 Princeton ESPN+ L 24–309,078 November 2 1:00 p.m. No. 15 Dartmouth Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry ) ESPN+ L 6–920,112 November 9 1:00 p.m. at Columbia ESPN+/SNY L 10–17 OT 4,739 November 16 Noon Penn Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry ) ESPN+/NESN L 20–248,113 November 23 Noon at No. 24 Yale ESPNU L 43–50 2OT 44,989
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Game summaries [ edit ] At San Diego [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total Crimson 0 0 7 16 23 Toreros 10 14 7 0 31
1 2 3 4 Total Bears 7 0 0 0 7 Crimson 7 14 7 14 42
1 2 3 4 Total Bison 3 0 7 7 17 Crimson 7 34 14 7 62
Cornell [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total Big Red 7 3 0 12 22 Crimson 7 21 0 7 35
At Holy Cross [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total Crimson 17 7 7 0 31 Crusaders 7 0 7 7 21
At Princeton [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total Crimson 0 14 0 10 24 No. 13 Tigers 10 0 13 7 30
Dartmouth [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total No. 15 Big Green 0 3 0 6 9 Crimson 3 0 0 3 6
At Columbia [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 OT Total Crimson 7 0 0 3 0 10 Lions 0 7 0 3 7 17
1 2 3 4 Total Quakers 7 3 7 7 24 Crimson 7 6 7 0 20
At Yale [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 OT 2OT Total Crimson 3 12 14 7 7 0 43 No. 24 Bulldogs 3 0 16 17 7 7 50
References [ edit ]
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