1890 Harvard Crimson football team

1890 Harvard Crimson football
Consensus national champion
Conference	Independent
1890 record	11–0
Head coach	George A. Stewart (1st year) & George C. Adams (1st year)
Captain	Arthur Cumnock

1890 college football records
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Yale			–					13	–	1	–	0
Harvard			–					11	–	0	–	0
California			–					4	–	0	–	0
Washington			–					0	–	0	–	1
Columbia			–					1	–	5	–	1
Colorado			–					0	–	4	–	0

The 1890 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1890 college football season. The team finished with an 11–0 record and was retroactively named national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.^[1] They outscored their opponents 555 to 12, and in eight of their games they scored at least 41 points.^[2]

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent^#	Rank^#	Site	TV	Result
October 4		Phillips Exeter Academy*		Cambridge, MA		W 41–0
October 8		Dartmouth*		Cambridge, MA		W 43–0
October 11		Amherst*		Cambridge, MA		W 74–6
October 13		Williams*		Cambridge, MA		W 38–0
October 18		Dartmouth*		Cambridge, MA		W 64–0
October 22		Bowdoin*		Cambridge, MA		W 54–0
October 25		Wesleyan*		Cambridge, MA		W 55–0
November 1		Cornell*		Cambridge, MA		W 77–0
November 8		Orange AC*		Cambridge, MA		W 33–0
November 15		at Amherst*		Amherst, MA		W 64–0
November 22		vs. Yale*		Springfield, MA (Rivalry)		W 12–6
*Non-conference game. ^#Rankings from AP Poll.

References

1. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
2. 1890 Harvard University football scores and results. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 4, 2013.