1898 Harvard Crimson football team

1898 Harvard Crimson football
National champion (Billingsley, Helms, Houlgate, NCF)
Conference	Independent
1898 record	11–0
Head coach	William Forbes (2nd year)

The 1898 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1898 college football season. The team finished with an 11–0 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and National Championship Foundation. Princeton, which finished the 1898 season 11-0-1, was named champion by one selector, Parke H. Davis.^[1] The Harvard team outscored their opponents 257 to 19 during the season.^[2]

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent^#	Rank^#	Site	TV	Result
October 1		Dartmouth*		Cambridge, MA		W 21–0
October 1		Williams*		Cambridge, MA		W 11–0
October 5		Bowdoin*		Cambridge, MA		W 28–6
October 12		Amherst*		Cambridge, MA		W 53–2
October 15		at Army*		West Point, NY		W 28–0
October 19		Newton AC*		Cambridge, MA		W 22–0
October 22		Chicago AA*		Cambridge, MA		W 39–0
October 29		Carlisle*		Cambridge, MA		W 11–5
November 5		Penn*		Cambridge, MA		W 10–0
November 12		Brown*		Cambridge, MA		W 17–6
November 19		at Yale*		Yale Field • New Haven, CT (Rivalry)		W 17–0
*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. 1898 Harvard University football scores and results. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 4, 2013.