1940 Harvard Crimson football team

The 1940 Harvard Crimson football team was an American football team that represented Harvard University as an independent during the 1940 college football season. In its sixth season under head coach Dick Harlow, the team compiled a 3–2–3 record and outscored opponents by a total of 77 to 49.[1][2] The team played its home games at Harvard Stadium in Boston.

1940 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
1940 record3–2–3
Head coach
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
1940 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 5 Boston College    11 0 0
Duquesne    7 1 0
No. 14 Penn    6 1 1
Penn State    6 1 1
No. 12 Fordham    7 2 0
No. 15 Cornell    6 2 0
Princeton    5 2 1
Columbia    5 2 2
Brown    6 3 1
Bucknell    4 2 2
Boston University    5 3 0
Colgate    5 3 0
Hofstra    4 3 0
Harvard    3 2 3
Dartmouth    5 4 0
Temple    4 4 1
Tufts    4 4 0
Vermont    4 4 0
Villanova    4 5 0
Pittsburgh    3 4 1
Syracuse    3 4 1
Buffalo    3 5 0
Carnegie Tech    3 5 0
Manhattan    3 6 0
Providence    3 6 0
NYU    2 7 0
Yale    1 7 0
Army    1 7 1
CCNY    1 5 1
Massachusetts State    1 8 0
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 5AmherstW 13–0
October 12Michigan
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
L 0–2626,315
October 19Army
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
T 6–6
October 26Dartmouth
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
L 6–735,000[3]
November 2Princeton
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
T 0–015,000[4]
November 9at No. 15 PennT 10–10
November 16Brown
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 14–0
November 23at YaleW 28–0
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

  1. "1940 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved April 11, 2020.
  2. "Harvard Football Yearly Records". GoCrimson.com. Harvard University. Archived from the original on August 14, 2014. Retrieved June 25, 2019.
  3. McGowen, Roscoe (October 27, 1940). "Dartmouth Rally Nips Harvard, 7-6". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  4. "Underdog Harvard Eleven, Aided By Rain, Holds Princeton To Scoreless Deadlock: Tigers Fail To Score On Game's Only Chance". The Hartford Courant. November 3, 1940. p. IV-1 via Newspapers.com.
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