1912 Harvard Crimson football team

The 1912 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1912 college football season. The team finished with a 9–0 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and Parke H. Davis, and as a co-national champion by the National Championship Foundation.[1] They outscored their opponents 176 to 22.[2]

1912 Harvard Crimson football
National champion (Billingsley, Helms, Houlgate, Davis) Co-national champion (NCF)
Conference	Independent
1912 record	9–0
Head coach	Percy Haughton (5th season)
Captain	Percy Langdon Wendell
Home stadium	Harvard Stadium

1912 Eastern college football independents records
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Harvard			–					9	–	0	–	0
Penn State			–					8	–	0	–	0
Carlisle			–					12	–	1	–	1
Princeton			–					7	–	1	–	1
Yale			–					7	–	1	–	1
Lehigh			–					9	–	2	–	0
Dartmouth			–					7	–	2	–	0
Wesleyan			–					7	–	2	–	0
Colgate			–					5	–	2	–	0
Wash. & Jeff.			–					8	–	3	–	1
Rhode Island State			–					6	–	3	–	0
Bucknell			–					6	–	3	–	1
Temple			–					3	–	2	–	0
Penn			–					7	–	4	–	0
Army			–					5	–	3	–	0
Brown			–					6	–	4	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					6	–	4	–	0
Rutgers			–					5	–	4	–	0
Tufts			–					5	–	4	–	0
Fordham			–					4	–	4	–	0
Villanova			–					3	–	3	–	0
Morris Harvey			–					2	–	2	–	0
Lafayette			–					4	–	5	–	1
Syracuse			–					4	–	5	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					3	–	4	–	1
Geneva			–					3	–	4	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					3	–	6	–	0
Boston College			–					2	–	4	–	1
Cornell			–					3	–	7	–	0
NYU			–					2	–	6	–	0

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
September 28	Maine	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 7–0
October 5	Holy Cross	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 19–0
October 12	Williams	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 26–3
October 19	Amherst	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 46–0
October 26	Brown	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 30–10
November 2	Princeton	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	W 16–6
November 9	Vanderbilt	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 9–3
November 16	Dartmouth	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	W 3–0
November 23	at Yale	Yale Field New Haven, CT (rivalry)	W 20–0

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References

1. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
2. "1912 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.