1913 Harvard Crimson football team

The 1913 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1913 college football season. The team finished with a 9–0 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and National Championship Foundation, and as a co-national champion with Chicago by Parke H. Davis.[1] They outscored their opponents 225 to 21.[2]

1913 Harvard Crimson football
National champion (Helms, Houlgate, NCF) Co-national champion (Davis)
Conference	Independent
1913 record	9–0
Head coach	Percy Haughton (6th season)
Captain	Robert Treat Paine Storer
Home stadium	Harvard Stadium

1913 Eastern college football independents records
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Harvard			–					9	–	0	–	0
Carlisle			–					10	–	1	–	1
Wash. & Jeff.			–					10	–	0	–	1
Army			–					8	–	1	–	0
Dartmouth			–					7	–	1	–	0
Tufts			–					7	–	1	–	0
Colgate			–					6	–	1	–	1
Franklin & Marshall			–					6	–	2	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					6	–	2	–	1
Princeton			–					5	–	2	–	1
Yale			–					5	–	2	–	3
Rutgers			–					6	–	3	–	0
Penn			–					6	–	3	–	1
Villanova			–					4	–	2	–	1
Lehigh			–					5	–	3	–	0
Bucknell			–					6	–	4	–	0
Cornell			–					5	–	4	–	1
Boston College			–					4	–	3	–	1
Geneva			–					4	–	3	–	0
Syracuse			–					6	–	4	–	0
Fordham			–					3	–	3	–	2
Lafayette			–					4	–	5	–	1
Brown			–					4	–	5	–	0
Duquesne			–					3	–	5	–	1
Carnegie Tech			–					2	–	4	–	1
Temple			–					1	–	3	–	2
Penn State			–					2	–	6	–	0
Rhode Island State			–					2	–	6	–	0
NYU			–					0	–	8	–	0

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
September 27	Maine	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 34–0
October 4	Bates	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 14–0
October 11	Williams	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 23–3
October 18	Holy Cross	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 47–7
October 25	Penn State	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 29–0
November 1	Cornell	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 23–6
November 8	at Princeton	Osborne Field Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	W 3–0
November 15	Brown	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 37–0
November 22	at Yale	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	W 15–5

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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. "1913 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.