1920 Harvard Crimson football team

The 1920 Harvard Crimson football team was an American football team that represented Harvard University as an independent during the 1920 college football season. In its second year under head coach Bob Fisher, the Crimson compiled an 8–0–1 record, shut out seven of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 208 to 28.

1920 Harvard Crimson football
Co-national champion (Boand)
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–0–1
Head coach
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
1920 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Boston College    8 0 0
Harvard    8 0 1
Princeton    6 0 1
Penn State    7 0 2
Pittsburgh    6 0 2
Army    7 2 0
Dartmouth    7 2 0
Cornell    6 2 0
Syracuse    6 2 1
Geneva    5 2 1
New Hampshire    5 2 1
Brown    6 3 0
Bucknell    6 3 0
Washington & Jefferson    6 3 1
Penn    6 4 0
Carnegie Tech    5 3 0
Lafayette    5 3 0
Holy Cross    5 3 0
Williams    5 3 0
Yale    5 3 0
Fordham    4 3 0
Franklin & Marshall    3 2 2
Boston University    4 3 1
Columbia    4 4 0
Duquesne    3 3 1
Vermont    3 5 0
NYU    2 5 1
Rhode Island State    0 4 4
Tufts    2 6 0
Rutgers    2 7 0
Buffalo    1 4 0
Colgate    1 5 2
Villanova    1 5 1
Drexel    0 6 0

There was no contemporaneous system in 1920 for determining a national champion. However, Harvard was retroactively named as the co-national champion by the Boand System. The majority of selectors have chosen California (9–0 record) as the national champion for 1920.

Harvard guard Tom Woods was selected as consensus first-team player on the 1920 All-America team. Other notable players on the 1920 Harvard team included halfback George Owen, fullback Arnold Horween, back Frederic Cameron Church Jr., center Charles Frederick Havemeyer, guard James Randolph Tolbert, and tackle Robert Minturn Sedgwick.

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