1886 Harvard Crimson football team

The 1886 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1886 college football season. The team finished with a 12–2 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 (0–12) and Yale (4–29). Princeton and Yale are recognized by various selectors as the 1886 national champions.

1886 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record12–2
Head coach
CaptainWilliam A. Brooks
Home stadiumJarvis Field
1886 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Yale   –  9 –0 –1
Princeton   –  7 –0 –1
Harvard   –  12 –2 –0
Lafayette   –  10 –2 –0
Williams   –  5 –1 –1
Massachusetts   –  2 –1 –0
Penn   –  9 –7 –1
Lehigh   –  4 –3 –1
Dartmouth   –  2 –2 –0
Amherst   –  3 –4 –0
Rutgers   –  1 –3 –0
Wesleyan   –  2 –6 –0
MIT   –  2 –6 –1
Vermont   –  0 –1 –0
Stevens   –  0 –7 –1
Tufts   –  0 –8 –0
NYU   –  0 –3 –0
Swarthmore   –    –  
Trinity (CT)   –    –  

Schedule
DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 6at Tufts Medford, MAW 82–0 [4]
October 9at MIT
W 54–0 [5]
October 13 Tufts
W 46–0 [6]
October 163:00 p.m. Stevens
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA
W 44–0 [7]
October 20 MIT
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA
W 59–0 [8]
October 23at Andover Andover, MAW 86–0 [9]
October 304:15 p.m. Dartmouth
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA (rivalry)
W 70–075[10]
November 3at Phillips Exeter Exeter, NHW 158–0 [3]
November 6 Wesleyan
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA
W 34–0 [11]
November 8 Harvard alumni
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA
W 38–0
November 132:30 p.m.at Princeton Princeton, NJ (rivalry)L 0–12 [12]
November 17at MIT
  • Union Grounds
  • Boston, MA
W 62–0 [13]
November 202:30 p.m. Yale
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA (rivalry)
L 4–29> 6,000[14][15]
November 25at Penn
W 28–02,000–3,000[16]

References
  1. "1886 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. "Harvard Football Yearly Records". GoCrimson.com. Harvard University. Archived from the original on August 14, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  3. "By Eighteen Points Harvard's Eleven Breaks the Record: Phillips Exeter Defeated by a Score of 158 Points to 0". The Boston Globe. November 4, 1886. p. 11 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  4. "Foot Ball at Harvard". The Boston Globe. October 7, 1886. p. 16 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  5. "Technology vs. Harvard: An Interesting Game of Foot Ball in Which Harvard is the Winner". The Boston Globe. October 10, 1886. p. 3 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  6. "Fair Harvard Again: Their Foot Ball Eleven Defeat the Tuftonians, 46 to 0". The Boston Globe. October 14, 1886. p. 4 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  7. "The Harvards Again". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 17, 1886. p. 6. Retrieved March 24, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  8. "Harvards Defeat "Techs."". The Boston Globe. October 21, 1886. p. 3 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  9. "Harvard's Kickers Win". The Boston Globe. October 24, 1886. p. 5 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  10. "Football in the Mud". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 31, 1886. p. 6. Retrieved March 21, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  11. "A Game That Counts: Harvard's Foot Ball Players Defeat Wesleyan". The Boston Globe. November 7, 1886. p. 3 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  12. "Winning A Second Victory". The New York Times. November 14, 1886. p. 9.
  13. "Playing in a Cold Rain: Harvard Defeats the Techs on the Union Grounds, 62 Points to 0". The Boston Globe. November 18, 1886. p. 11 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  14. "Again Yale Wins: Harvard's Eleven Out-played by the Veterans". The Boston Globe. November 21, 1886. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. "Harvard Beaten By Yale". The New York Times. November 21, 1886. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. "Harvard's Easy Victory". The Times (Philadelphia). November 26, 1886. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.


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