1889 Harvard Crimson football team

The 1889 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1889 college football season. The Crimson finished with a 9–2 record. The team won its first ten games by a combined score of 404–6, but lost its last two games, against Princeton and Yale, giving up 41 points against Princeton.

1889 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–2
Head coach
  • None
CaptainArthur Cumnock
Home stadiumJarvis Field
1889 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Princeton    10 0 0
Massachusetts    2 0 0
Yale    15 1 0
Harvard    9 2 0
Franklin & Marshall    5 1 1
Dickinson    4 1 1
Navy    4 1 1
Tufts    3 1 0
Lehigh    8 3 2
Cornell    8 4 0
Penn    7 6 0
Brown    2 2 0
Penn State    2 2 0
Delaware    1 1 1
Wesleyan    5 7 1
Bucknell    2 3 1
Lafayette    3 4 2
Columbia    2 7 2
Fordham    1 3 0
Rutgers    1 4 0
NYU    0 2 0

Three Harvard players were selected as first-team players on the 1889 College Football All-America Team: end and team Arthur Cumnock, halfback James P. Lee, and guard John Cranston.

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