1901 Harvard Crimson football team

The 1901 Harvard Crimson football team was an American football team that represented Harvard University as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its first season under head coach Bill Reid, the team compiled a 12–0 record, shut out nine of 12 opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 254 to 24.

1901 Harvard Crimson football
National champion (Billingsley, Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
Record12–0
Head coach
Home stadiumSoldier's Field
1901 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Harvard    12 0 0
Yale    11 1 1
Cornell    11 1 0
Dartmouth    10 1 0
Massachusetts    9 1 0
Princeton    9 1 1
Syracuse    7 1 0
Holy Cross    7 1 1
Geneva    6 1 1
Army    5 1 2
Western U. of Penn    7 2 1
Lafayette    9 3 0
Swarthmore    8 2 2
Washington & Jefferson    6 2 2
Frankin & Marshall    7 3 1
Penn    10 5 0
Buffalo    4 2 0
Columbia    8 5 0
Fordham    2 1 1
Penn State    5 3 0
Bucknell    6 4 0
Pittsburgh College    3 2 0
Temple    3 2 0
NYU    4 3 1
Tufts    6 6 1
Vermont    5 5 1
Dickinson    3 4 0
Carlisle    5 7 1
Brown    4 7 1
Villanova    2 3 0
Drexel    2 5 1
Colgate    2 5 0
Boston College    1 8 0
Lehigh    1 11 0
New Hampshire    0 6 0
Rutgers    0 7 0

When Harvard met Yale at season's end, it was considered to be for the national championship by the contemporaneous media. Harper's Weekly (photo below) and the Chicago Tribune recognized the team as national champions. In addition, the team was retrospectively named as the national champion by two selectors, the Billingsley Report and Parke H. Davis. Three other selectors, the Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and the National Championship Foundation retrospectively named Michigan as the 1901 national champion. A modern authority on college football rankings said, "Indeed, had there been an AP poll in 1901, Harvard would have been #1 by a landslide."

Nine Harvard players received first-team honors from Walter Camp (WC) or Caspar Whitney (CW) on the 1901 All-America team:

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