1881 Harvard Crimson football team

American college football season August 2023 December 2025 1881 Harvard Crimson football Independent 6–1–1 Lucius Littauer 1st William H. Manning Boston Baseball Grounds, Holmes Field The 1881 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1881 college football season. They Crimson compiled a record of 6–1–1. The team was managed by first-year head coach, Lucius Littauer, and captained for the second year by William H. Manning.1881 Harvard Crimson Schedule and Results Sports Reference LLC SR/College Football January 2, 2017 https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/harvard/1881-schedule.htmlhttp://www.gocrimson.com/sports/fball/history/Media_Center_Football_Yearly_Results Harvard Football Yearly Records GoCrimson.com Harvard University January 2, 2017 August 14, 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140814061951/http://www.gocrimson.com/sports/fball/history/Media_Center_Football_Yearly_Results dead Schedule October 20 3:00 p.m. w Montreal Football Club Boston Baseball Grounds Boston, MA 2–0 400–600 Football.—Harvards, Two Goals; Montreals, Nothing—An Exciting Game Won in the First Fifteen Minutes https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98684441/the-boston-globe/ The Boston Daily Globe Boston, Massachusetts October 21, 1881 5 March 30, 2022 Newspapers.com A Game Of Football https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98684478/the-fall-river-daily-herald/ Fall River Daily Herald Fall River, Massachusetts October 22, 1881 1 March 30, 2022 Newspapers.com October 22 3:20 p.m. w Ottawa Football Club Holmes Field Cambridge, MA 1,000 9–1 Fall Pastime.—The Harvard Foot-Ball Team Defeat The Canadians https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98684729/the-boston-globe/ The Boston Sunday Globe Boston, Massachusetts October 23, 1881 8 March 30, 2022 Newspapers.com October 29 w y Brittania Football Club Montreal, QC 2–0 October 31 3:15 p.m. w Michigan Boston Baseball Grounds Boston, MA 4–0 100 The Sporting World.—Harvard Wins 1 Touch-down to 0 in a Foot-Ball Match With the Michigan University Team https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98685018/the-boston-globe/ The Boston Daily Globe Boston, Massachusetts November 1, 1881 1 March 30, 2022 Newspapers.com November 2 3:36 p.m. w y Penn Polo Grounds New York, NY rivalry 2–0 200 Harvard Once More Defeats University Of Pennsylvania https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98685337/the-new-york-times/ The New York Times New York, New York November 3, 1881 8 March 30, 2020 Newspapers.com November 5 2:30 p.m. w Columbia Holmes Field Cambridge, MA 1–0 2,000 The Harvard Foot Ball Eleven Defeat Columbia https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98685463/the-boston-globe/ The Boston Sunday Globe Boston, Massachusetts November 6, 1881 8 March 30, 2022 Newspapers.com November 12 2:40 p.m. l y Yale New Haven, CT rivalry 0–1 1,500 Yale Overcomes Harvard The New York Times November 13, 1881 2 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16327881/yale_overcomes_harvard/ Newspapers.com November 19 2:30 p.m. t y Princeton Polo Grounds New York, NY rivalry 0–0 2,500 Fine Foot-ball Playing https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84957280/the-new-york-times/ The New York Times New York, New York November 20, 1881 16 September 8, 2021 Newspapers.com Game summaries October 31: Harvard 4, Michigan 0 Harvard played Michigan on October 31 in the first matchup of teams from the west and east.Media Center: Football - A Timeline of Tradition Harvard University http://www.gocrimson.com/sports/fball/history/Football_Tradition_Media_Center January 3, 2017 January 8, 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170108113503/http://gocrimson.com/sports/fball/history/Football_Tradition_Media_Center dead The Boston Journal carried a lengthy article about the game, saying that Harvard scored one touchdown and Michigan none. "Yesterday afternoon, in a drenching rain, for the first time an Eastern foot-ball eleven played with a Western eleven. The Western college boys have long wished a chance to try their powers with Eastern opponents, and, to effect this, the University of Michigan this fall have sent on a representative eleven to play the largest of the Eastern colleges. Their first opponent were the Harvard team. They were beaten but with fair weather the result would have been very uncertain. As it was, Harvard won more by luck than by superiority in strength or skill, for with the exception of the first ten minutes they were forced to play a defensive game. ... During the second half hour the ball was near the Harvard line constantly. Once it came within three feet of the chalk, but the most desperate fighting on the Harvard forced it back foot by foot until the immediate danger was over. ... The Michigan team excelled in running, and their tackling was very fair. As to passing, they did very little. It was by all odds the best game seen in Boston this fall."Foot Ball: The Harvard Eleven Beat the University of Michigan – Score, One Touchdown to Nothing Boston Journal 1881-11-01 In 1901, one of the Michigan players, Fred Townsend, wrote an account of the 1881 trip. He said Harvard scored a touchdown at the very beginning of the game, but missed the try for goal. Michigan recovered and came within three yards of scoring a touchdown in the second half, but they were held for downs by the bigger Harvard players.Townsend Fred Fred Townsend The First Eastern Trip https://bentley.umich.edu/athdept/football/misc/1881fbtrip.pdf Inlander University of Michigan 1901 References Harvard Category:Harvard Crimson football seasons Harvard Crimson football Category:1880s in Boston