1886 Harvard Crimson football team

1886 Harvard Crimson football
1886 Harvard Crimson football
Conference	Independent
Record	12â2
Head coach	Frank A. Mason (1st season);
Captain	William A. Brooks
Home stadium	Jarvis Field
	Seasons â 1884 1887 â

The 1886 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1886 college football season. The team finished with a 12â2 record and outscored opponents 765 to 41 under first-year head coach Frank A. Mason.^[1]^[2] On November 3, 1886, in a game played at Exeter, New Hampshire, the Crimson defeated the team from Phillips Exeter Academy by a score of 158-0, the highest point total ever achieved in a football game to that point.^[3] The team's two losses were against rivals Princeton (0â12) and Yale (4â29). Princeton and Yale are recognized by various selectors as the 1886 national champions.

ConferenceIndependent

Record12â2

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Frank A. Mason (1st season)

CaptainWilliam A. Brooks

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1886 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	Conf.			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Yale		â		9	â	0	â	1
Princeton		â		7	â	0	â	1
Harvard		â		12	â	2	â	0
Lafayette		â		10	â	2	â	0
Williams		â		5	â	1	â	1
Massachusetts		â		2	â	1	â	0
Penn		â		9	â	7	â	1
Lehigh		â		4	â	3	â	1
Dartmouth		â		2	â	2	â	0
Amherst		â		3	â	4	â	0
Rutgers		â		1	â	3	â	0
Wesleyan		â		2	â	6	â	0
MIT		â		2	â	6	â	1
Vermont		â		0	â	1	â	0
Stevens		â		0	â	7	â	1
Tufts		â		0	â	8	â	0
NYU		â		0	â	3	â	0
Swarthmore		â				â
Trinity (CT)		â				â

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Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 6		at Tufts	Medford, MA	W 82â0		^[4]
October 9		at MIT	Union Grounds Boston, MA	W 54â0		^[5]
October 13		Tufts	Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA	W 46â0		^[6]
October 16	3:00 p.m.	Stevens	Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA	W 44â0		^[7]
October 20		MIT	Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA	W 59â0		^[8]
October 23		at Andover	Andover, MA	W 86â0		^[9]
October 30	4:15 p.m.	Dartmouth	Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA (rivalry)	W 70â0	75	^[10]
November 3		at Phillips Exeter	Exeter, NH	W 158â0		^[3]
November 6		Wesleyan	Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA	W 34â0		^[11]
November 8		Harvard alumni	Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA	W 38â0
November 13	2:30 p.m.	at Princeton	Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	L 0â12		^[12]
November 17		at MIT	Union Grounds Boston, MA	W 62â0		^[13]
November 20	2:30 p.m.	Yale	Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA (rivalry)	L 4â29	> 6,000	^[14]^[15]
November 25		at Penn	University athletic grounds Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	W 28â0	2,000â3,000	^[16]

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