The 1897 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1897 college football season . The Crimson finished with a 10–1–1 record and shut out 10 of 12 opponents under first-year head coach William Cameron Forbes , who later served as Governor-General of the Philippines (1908–13) and Ambassador of the United States to Japan (1930–32). The 1897 team won its first ten games by a combined 227-5 score. It then closed the season playing to a scoreless tie with Yale and losing by a 15-6 score against Penn .[1] [2]
Two Harvard players received consensus honors on the 1897 College Football All-America Team : center Allan Doucette and halfback Benjamin Dibblee . Other notable players on Harvard's 1897 team included end Norman Cabot and tackle Malcolm Donald .
Schedule [ ] Date Opponent Site Result Attendance Source October 2 Williams Soldiers' Field Cambridge, MA W 20–02,000 [3] October 6 Bowdoin Soldiers' Field Cambridge, MA W 24–0 [4] October 9 Dartmouth Soldiers' Field Cambridge, MA (rivalry ) W 13–05,000 [5] October 13 Amherst Soldiers' Field Cambridge, MA W 38–0 [6] October 16 at Army W 10–02,000 [7] October 20 Newton Athletic Ass'n Soldiers' Field Cambridge, MA W 24–0 [8] October 23 Brown Soldiers' Field Cambridge, MA W 18–08,000 [9] [10] October 26 Newtowne Athletic Club Soldiers' Field Cambridge, MA W 22–01,500 [11] October 30 Cornell Soldiers' Field Cambridge, MA W 24–56,000 [12] November 3 Wesleyan Soldiers' Field Cambridge, MA W 34–01,200 [13] [14] November 13 Yale Soldiers' Field Cambridge, MA (rivalry ) T 0–025,000 [15] November 20 at Penn L 6–1525,000 [16]
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↑ "1897 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results" . SR/College Football . Sports Reference LLC. https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/harvard/1897-schedule.html . Retrieved February 27, 2017 .↑ "Harvard Football Yearly Records" . GoCrimson.com . Harvard University. http://www.gocrimson.com/sports/fball/history/Media_Center_Football_Yearly_Results . Retrieved August 13, 2014 .↑ "Harvard 20, Williams 0: Regular Football Season Opened on Soldiers Field" . The Boston Globe : p. 1. October 3, 1897. https://newspaperarchive.com/boston-sunday-globe-oct-03-1897-p-61/ .↑ "Harvard Wins Easily: Play Against Bowdoin Hardly Up to Expected Standard" . The Boston Globe : p. 9. October 7, 1897. https://newspaperarchive.com/boston-daily-globe-oct-07-1897-p-21/ .↑ "Harvard Wins Easily: Dartmouth Is Outgeneraled and Beaten By Score of 13 to 0" . The Boston Globe : p. 1. October 10, 1897. https://newspaperarchive.com/boston-sunday-globe-oct-10-1897-p-69/ .↑ "Harvard Scores Well: Amherst Gets Near Crimson's Line Only Once in the Game" . The Boston Globe : pp. 1, 4. October 15, 1897. https://newspaperarchive.com/boston-daily-globe-oct-14-1897-p-1/ .↑ "Hot Work on the Gridiron: Harvard Defeats West Point 10-0 After a Stubborn Contest" . The Boston Globe : p. 1. October 17, 1897. https://newspaperarchive.com/boston-sunday-globe-oct-17-1897-p-77/ .↑ "Surpasses Yale: Harvard Team Piles Up 24 Points Against Newton" . Boston Post : p. 3. October 21, 1897. https://newspaperarchive.com/boston-post-oct-21-1897-p-3/ .↑ "Fierce Onslaughts: Brown's Line Was Unable to Withstand Harvard's Determined Rushes" . The Boston Globe : p. 1. October 24, 1897. https://newspaperarchive.com/boston-sunday-globe-oct-24-1897-p-1/ .↑ "Harvard's Football Giants Keep Brown From Scoring: Crimson's Men Piled Up 18 Points, and Their Line Was Impenetrable" . Boston Post : pp. 1, 3. October 24, 1897. https://newspaperarchive.com/boston-sunday-post-oct-24-1897-p-1/ .↑ "Weak Showing: Harvard's Play Against Newtowne a Discouraging Exhibition; Final Score Was 22 to 0" . Boston Post : p. 3. October 27, 1897. https://newspaperarchive.com/boston-post-oct-28-1897-p-3/ .↑ "Harvard Wins: Crimson Football Team Defeats Cornell's Brave Warriors, 24 to 5" . Boston Post : pp. 1, 3. October 31, 1897. https://newspaperarchive.com/boston-sunday-post-oct-31-1897-p-1/ .↑ "Easy Victory: Harvard Eleven Defeats Wesleyan 34 to 0". Boston Post : p. 3. October 4, 1897. (1,200 attendance)↑ "Harvard Plays Well: Some Encouragement From The Game With Wesleyan Which Ends 34-0" . The Boston Globe : p. 1. November 4, 1897. https://newspaperarchive.com/boston-daily-globe-nov-04-1897-p-1/ .↑ Langdon Smith (November 14, 1897). "Harvard and Yale Tie: Neither Side Able to Score a Point During 70 Minutes of Fierce Play" . The Boston Globe : p. 1. https://newspaperarchive.com/boston-sunday-globe-nov-14-1897-p-1/ . ↑ "Pennsylvania Lowered Fair Harvard's Colors: In a Pretty Contest Witnessed by a Crowd of Twenty-Five Thousand People" . The Times (Philadelphia) : p. 1. November 21, 1897. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16451820/pennsylvania_lowered_fair_harvards/ .
