1941 Harvard Crimson football team

1941 Harvard Crimson football
1941 Harvard Crimson football
Conference	Ivy League
Record	5–2–1 (4–2 Ivy)
Head coach	Dick Harlow (7th season);
Home stadium	Harvard Stadium
	Seasons ← 1940 1942 →

The 1941 Harvard Crimson football team was an American football team that represented Harvard University in the Ivy League during the 1941 college football season. In its seventh season under head coach Dick Harlow, the team compiled a 5–2–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 70 to 43. The team was ranked No. 17 in the AP Poll released on November 10, 1941, and No. 19 in the poll released on November 24, 1941.^[1] The team was unranked in the final AP Poll but was ranked at No. 32 (out of 681 teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1941.^[2]

ConferenceIvy League

Record5–2–1 (4–2 Ivy)

Headcoach

Dick Harlow (7th season)

HomestadiumHarvard Stadium

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1941 Ivy League football standings
v t e	Conf.					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 15 Penn $	5	–	0	–	0	7	–	1	–	0
Columbia	3	–	1	–	0	3	–	5	–	0
Harvard	4	–	2	–	0	5	–	2	–	1
Cornell	3	–	2	–	0	5	–	3	–	0
Dartmouth	2	–	2	–	0	5	–	4	–	0
Brown	1	–	2	–	0	5	–	4	–	0
Princeton	1	–	4	–	0	2	–	6	–	0
Yale	0	–	6	–	0	1	–	7	–	0

$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

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Harvard's Endicott Peabody won the 1941 Knute Rockne Memorial Trophy as the best collegiate lineman and was the only player to be unanimously selected by all nine official selectors as a first-team player on the 1941 All-America team.^[3] Peabody and end Loren MacKinney were also selected by the Associated Press as first-team players on the 1941 All-Eastern football team.^[4] Peabody was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame and served as Governor of Massachusetts.

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Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 4	at Penn		Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	L 0–19	40,000	^[5]^[6]
October 11	Cornell		Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	L 0–7	20,000	^[7]
October 18	Dartmouth		Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	W 7–0	37,000	^[8]
October 25	No. 5 Navy*		Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 20–6	40,000	^[9]
November 1	at Princeton		Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	W 6–4	18,000	^[10]
November 8	No. 11 Army*		Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 20–6	53,000	^[11]
November 15	Brown	No. 17	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 23–7	20,000	^[12]
November 22	Yale		Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	W 14–0	53,000	^[13]
*Non-conference game Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

	Week
Poll	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Final
AP	—	—	—	—	17	—	19	—

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