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1884 Harvard Crimson football team

1884 Harvard Crimson football team

American college football season

The 1884 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1884 college football season. They finished with a 7–4 record.[1][2]

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On November 15, Harvard lost to Princeton by a 36–6 score before 3,000 spectators at Jarvis Field in Cambridge.[3]

On November 22, Harvard lost to Yale by a 51–0 score before 2,400 spectators at the new athletic grounds in New Haven. The game was played in two halves of 45 minutes with a 15-minute intermission.[4]

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References

  1. [1]
    "1884 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. [2]
    "Harvard Football Yearly Records". GoCrimson.com. Harvard University. Archived from the original on August 14, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  3. [3]
    "Princeton's Eleven Wins". The New York Times. November 16, 1884. p. 7.
  4. [4]
    "The Harvards Badly Beaten". The New York Times. November 23, 1884. p. 2.
  5. [5]
    "Tackling and Checking: Harvard Beats Technology at Foot Ball by a Score of 47 Points to 5". The Boston Globe. October 12, 1884. p. 2 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
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    "Harvard Beaten: The University of Pennsylvania Eleven Inflicts the First Defeat of the Season". The Boston Globe. October 23, 1884. p. 13 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
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    "Harvard Foot Ball Men Win: The Technology Eleven Easily Defeated on the Union Grounds". The Boston Globe. October 26, 1884. p. 6 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
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    "Goals and Touchdowns Scored with Ease by Harvard Against Trinity". The Boston Globe. November 1, 1884. p. 13 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  9. [9]
    "Football - Wesleyans, 16; Harvards, 0". The Boston Globe. November 2, 1884. p. 6 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
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    "Practicing With Williams: Harvard Wins at Foot Ball by a Score of 23 to Nothing". The Boston Globe. November 7, 1884. p. 5 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
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    "Harvard Wins in Canada". The Sun (New York). November 14, 1884. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
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    "Harvard Blanks Dartmouth at Foot Ball". Boston Daily Globe. November 11, 1884. p. 5 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
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    "By a Large Majority Harvard Foot Ball Players Beat Tuftonians". The Boston Globe. November 13, 1884. p. 11 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  14. [14]
    "The Season of Slogging Well Begun With Princeton's Victory at Harvard". The Boston Glove. November 16, 1884. p. 3 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.(attendance reported as 2,000)
  15. [15]
    "Princeton's Eleven Wins". The New York Times. November 16, 1884. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.(attendance reported as 3,000)
  16. [16]
    "The Harvards Badly Beaten: The Yale Football Team Whip Them by a Score of 52 to 0". The New York Times. November 23, 1884. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.(attendance 2,400)
  17. [17]
    "Fifty-Two To Nothing Tells The Story of Harvard's Defeat at New Haven". The Boston Globe. November 23, 1884. p. 1 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.(attendance 2,500)


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