2019 Harvard Crimson football team

2019 Harvard Crimson football
2019 Harvard Crimson football
	The Crimson defeated Cornell, 35-22
Conference	Ivy League
Record	4–6 (2–5 Ivy)
Head coach	Tim Murphy (26th season);
Offensive coordinator	Joel Lamb (14th season)
Offensive scheme	Spread
Defensive coordinator	Scott Larkee (11th season)
Base defense	4–3
Home stadium	Harvard Stadium
Uniform

2019 Ivy League football standings

Team	W		L	W		L
No. 22 Dartmouth +	6	–	1	9	–	1
No. 25 Yale +	6	–	1	9	–	1
Princeton	5	–	2	8	–	2
Penn	3	–	4	5	–	5
Cornell	3	–	4	4	–	6
Harvard	2	–	5	4	–	6
Columbia	2	–	5	3	–	7
Brown	1	–	6	2	–	8

+ – Conference co-champions Rankings from STATS Poll

The 2019 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University during the 2019 NCAA Division I FCS football season as a member of the Ivy League. They were led by 26th-year head coach Tim Murphy and played their home games at Harvard Stadium. They finished the season 4–6 overall and 2–5 in Ivy League play to tie for sixth place. Harvard averaged 10,812 fans per game.

Preseason

Preseason media poll

The Ivy League released their preseason media poll on August 8, 2019. The Crimson were picked to finish in fourth place.^[1]

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 21	4:00 pm	at San Diego*	Torero Stadium San Diego, CA	WCC Network	L 23–31	2,607
September 27	7:00 p.m.	Brown	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	ESPNews	W 42–7	10,088
October 5	1:00 p.m.	Howard*	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	ESPN+	W 62–17	8,234
October 12	1:00 p.m.	Cornell	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	ESPN+	W 35–22	7,513
October 19	1:00 p.m.	at Holy Cross*	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	PLN	W 31–21	10,381
October 26	1:00 p.m.	at No. 13 Princeton	Powers Field at Princeton Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	ESPN+	L 24–30	9,078
November 2	1:00 p.m.	No. 15 Dartmouth	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	ESPN+	L 6–9	20,112
November 9	1:00 p.m.	at Columbia	Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium New York, NY	ESPN+/SNY	L 10–17 ^OT	4,739
November 16	Noon	Penn	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	ESPN+/NESN	L 20–24	8,113
November 23	Noon	at No. 24 Yale	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (rivalry)	ESPNU	L 43–50 ^2OT	44,989
*Non-conference game Rankings from STATS Poll released prior to the game All times are in Eastern time

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Game summaries

At San Diego

	1	2	3	4	Total
Crimson	0	0	7	16	23
Toreros	10	14	7	0	31

Brown

	1	2	3	4	Total
Bears	7	0	0	0	7
Crimson	7	14	7	14	42

Howard

	1	2	3	4	Total
Bison	3	0	7	7	17
Crimson	7	34	14	7	62

Cornell

	1	2	3	4	Total
Big Red	7	3	0	12	22
Crimson	7	21	0	7	35

At Holy Cross

	1	2	3	4	Total
Crimson	17	7	7	0	31
Crusaders	7	0	7	7	21

At Princeton

	1	2	3	4	Total
Crimson	0	14	0	10	24
No. 13 Tigers	10	0	13	7	30

Dartmouth

	1	2	3	4	Total
No. 15 Big Green	0	3	0	6	9
Crimson	3	0	0	3	6

At Columbia

	1	2	3	4	OT	Total
Crimson	7	0	0	3	0	10
Lions	0	7	0	3	7	17

Penn

	1	2	3	4	Total
Quakers	7	3	7	7	24
Crimson	7	6	7	0	20

At Yale

	1	2	3	4	OT	2OT	Total
Crimson	3	12	14	7	7	0	43
No. 24 Bulldogs	3	0	16	17	7	7	50

References

^ "Yale Named League Favorite in 2019 Football Preseason Poll". ivyleague.com. Retrieved August 8, 2019.
^ "2019 Harvard Football Schedule". FBSchedules.com. Retrieved April 15, 2019.

[1] "Yale Named League Favorite in 2019 Football Preseason Poll". ivyleague.com. Retrieved August 8, 2019.

[2] "2019 Harvard Football Schedule". FBSchedules.com. Retrieved April 15, 2019.

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Harvard Crimson football
Venues	Boston Baseball Grounds (1877–1881) Holmes Field (1881–1882, 1888) Jarvis Field (1883–1893) Soldier's Field (1894–1903) Harvard Stadium (1903–present)
Bowls and rivalries	1920 Rose Bowl Dartmouth Penn Princeton Yale
Culture and lore	"Ten Thousand Men of Harvard" 1874 McGill game 1921 Centre game 1968 Yale game (Harvard Beats Yale 29–29) 2004 Harvard–Yale prank
People	Head coaches NFL draftees
Seasons	1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
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