Harvard Crimson

2026: 5–⁠0 (2–⁠0 Ivy). Last: beat Holy Cross 30–⁠7 at home. Next: Princeton, Saturday, Oct 24, 3 p.m. ET.

Harvard has played football since 1873 and is 806–⁠315–⁠42 in the 1,163 games on record here, which start in 1875. Harvard claims seven national championships (1890, 1898, 1899, 1910, 1912, 1913, 1919). They have won 20 Ivy League titles (the last in 2025), counting shared titles. The College Football Hall of Fame holds 18 players and 3 coaches from Harvard. John Yovicsin (1957–⁠1970) won more games here than any other coach: 78. The most-played rival is Yale: 141 meetings, Yale leads 72–⁠61–⁠8. This season, they’re 5–⁠0.

Harvard Stadium in Boston — Harvard StadiumPhoto: Quintinsoloviev, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

On this date in 2024Harvard beat Holy Cross 35–⁠34 at home.

Résumé

All-time record: 918–⁠415–⁠50 official; 806–⁠315–⁠42 on file; how we count
Postseason: 1–⁠0 matches the official bowl record
AP No. 1 finishes: 0
Weeks at No. 1: 0 of 5 ranked
Elo now: 1494
Computer rankings: Massey No. 11 · Composite No. 8 in FCS, Oct 17; up 2 since Oct 11. From Massey Ratings
Best season by Elo: 1901 rated 1807
Conference titles: 20 last in 2025
Seasons: 132 since 1875, 1,163 games

Identity

Fight song: Ten Thousand Men of Harvard
Band: Harvard University Band since 1919, 80+ members

2026 season 5–⁠0

Roster Full 2026 season

Date	Opponent	Result
Sep 19	atNew Hampshire	W 31–⁠7	56%
Sep 25	atBrown	W 14–⁠10	63%
Oct 3	vsColgate	W 20–⁠17	71%
Oct 10	atCornell	W 41–⁠29	63%
Oct 17	vsHoly Cross	W 30–⁠7	79%
Oct 24	vsPrinceton	Preview	76%
Oct 30	atDartmouth	Preview	64%
Nov 7	vsColumbia	Preview	81%
Nov 14	atPennsylvania	Preview	67%
Nov 21	vsYale	Preview	64%

Elo: a pregame chance from scores alone.

This season, game by game

New Hampshire Brown Colgate Cornell Holy CrossNow

Elo going into each game, then after the latest. Filled dots: wins; open: losses. Dashed line: 1500, an average FBS team.

Players

The 2026 roster Record book The money

On the 2026 team

Program greats See all

Heisman finalists, College Football Hall of Famers, consensus All-Americans, national award winners and first-round picks, for what they did at Harvard.

Photos: Wikimedia Commons, free licenses; credits on each player’s page.

Program strength since 1875

Best seasons ever

End-of-season Elo. Dashed line: 1500, an average FBS team.

Head coaches

Coach	Years	Record
Joseph Restic	1971–⁠1981	59–⁠39–⁠3
John Yovicsin	1957–⁠1970	78–⁠42–⁠5
Lloyd Jordan	1950–⁠1956	24–⁠31–⁠3
Arthur Valpey	1948–⁠1949	5–⁠12
Dick Harlow	1935–⁠1947	45–⁠39–⁠7
Henry Lamar	1944	1–⁠0
Eddie Casey	1931–⁠1934	20–⁠11–⁠1
Arnold Horween	1926–⁠1930	21–⁠17–⁠3
Bob Fisher	1919–⁠1925	43–⁠14–⁠5
Pooch Donovan	1918	2–⁠1
Percy Haughton	1908–⁠1916	71–⁠7–⁠5
Joshua Crane	1907	7–⁠3
Bill Reid	1901–⁠1906	30–⁠3–⁠1
Edgar Wrightington	1904	7–⁠2–⁠1
John Cranston	1903	9–⁠3
John Wells Farley	1902	11–⁠1
Benjamin Dibblee	1899–⁠1900	20–⁠1–⁠1
William Cameron Forbes	1897–⁠1898	21–⁠1–⁠1
Bert Waters	1896	7–⁠4
William A. Brooks	1894	11–⁠2
George A. Stewart & George C. Adams	1890–⁠1892	34–⁠2
Frank Mason	1886	12–⁠2
Lucius Littauer	1881	6–⁠1–⁠1

Most-played series

All rivalries

Yale
61–⁠72–⁠8 ‡ in 141
Lost the last four.
Next: Nov 21
Dartmouth
63–⁠40–⁠4 in 107
Won the last four.
Next: Oct 30
Brown
78–⁠24–⁠2 in 104
Won the last two.

Opponent	Games	HARV record
Yale	141	61–⁠72–⁠8 ‡
Dartmouth	107	63–⁠40–⁠4
Brown	104	78–⁠24–⁠2
Princeton	95	37–⁠51–⁠7
Pennsylvania	74	47–⁠25–⁠2
Cornell	69	47–⁠21–⁠1
Columbia	62	48–⁠13–⁠1
Holy Cross	57	40–⁠16–⁠1

Official records. † Without wins the NCAA vacated. ‡ The rivalry’s own count, where it differs from the games on file. Each series page gives both.

Rivals the program names: Dartmouth, Yale, Princeton.

Every opponent (87)

Every program Harvard has played, A to Z, with Harvard’s record against it. Each links to the series, game by game.

Amherst 24–⁠1
Andover 6–⁠0
Army 19–⁠18–⁠2
Bates 22–⁠0
Boston A.C. 5–⁠1–⁠1
Boston College 3–⁠0
Boston University 8–⁠3
Bowdoin 17–⁠0
Britannia 3–⁠0–⁠1
Brown 78–⁠24–⁠2
Bucknell 4–⁠1–⁠1
Buffalo 1–⁠1
Canada All-Stars 3–⁠0
Carlisle 12–⁠2
Centre 2–⁠1
Chicago 2–⁠0
Chicago A.C. 3–⁠0
Coast Guard 3–⁠0
Colby 3–⁠0
Colgate 4–⁠2
Columbia 48–⁠13–⁠1
Cornell 47–⁠21–⁠1
Dartmouth 63–⁠40–⁠4
Davidson 3–⁠0
Exeter 11–⁠0
Florida 2–⁠0
Geneva 0–⁠1
Georgetown 5–⁠0
Georgia 1–⁠0
Harvard Alumni 2–⁠1
Holy Cross 40–⁠16–⁠1
Howard 3–⁠0
Indiana 2–⁠0
Lafayette 15–⁠1
Lehigh 7–⁠4
Maine 11–⁠0
Massachusetts 9–⁠5–⁠1
McDaniel 1–⁠0
McGill 3–⁠0–⁠1
Merchant Marine 1–⁠0
Merrimack 2–⁠0
Michigan 4–⁠4
Middlebury 4–⁠0–⁠1
MIT 15–⁠0
Montreal 1–⁠0–⁠1
Navy 1–⁠1–⁠3
New Hampshire 9–⁠0
New London Submarine Base 0–⁠1
Newton A.C. 2–⁠0
Newtowne A.C. 2–⁠0
North Carolina 2–⁠0
North Carolina Pre-Flight 0–⁠1
Northeastern 4–⁠0
Ohio 3–⁠0
Orange A.C. 2–⁠0
Oregon 1–⁠0
Ottawa 3–⁠0
Penn State 3–⁠0–⁠2
Pennsylvania 47–⁠25–⁠2
Princeton 37–⁠51–⁠7
Purdue 0–⁠1
Rensselaer 1–⁠0
Rhode Island 3–⁠2
Rochester (NY) 1–⁠0
Rutgers 2–⁠3
San Diego 3–⁠1
Springfield 14–⁠0
St. Thomas (MN) 1–⁠0
Stanford 0–⁠1
Stetson 2–⁠0
Stevens 4–⁠0
Texas 1–⁠0
Trinity (CT) 3–⁠0
Tufts 15–⁠3
UConn 1–⁠0
Valparaiso 1–⁠0
Vanderbilt 1–⁠0
Vermont 2–⁠0
Villanova 0–⁠1
Virginia 8–⁠1
Washington & Jefferson 1–⁠0
Washington St. Louis 1–⁠0
Wesleyan (CT) 17–⁠1
William & Mary 4–⁠0–⁠2
Williams 30–⁠0
WPI 2–⁠0
Yale 61–⁠72–⁠8 ‡

Official records. † Without wins the NCAA vacated, or with forfeits counted. ‡ The rivalry’s own count, where it differs from the games on file.

Conference titles

20, counting shared titles

Ivy League 20: 1961 (shared), 1966 (shared), 1968 (shared), 1974 (shared), 1975, 1982 (shared), 1983 (shared), 1987, 1997, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2008 (shared), 2011, 2013 (shared), 2014, 2015 (shared), 2023 (shared), 2024 (shared), 2025 (shared)

As the program counts them in its Wikipedia article, shared titles included, and listed under each conference’s current name (a Western Conference title of the 1900s counts as a Big Ten title); season pages use the name the conference had that year. A title the article files under a conference the team wasn’t in that season is listed under the one it was. Division titles include years the team tied for its division.

Conferences

Independent 1873–⁠1884 and 1886–⁠1955
Ivy League 1982–⁠2019 and since 2021

Harvard’s football conferences by season, from CollegeFootballData.com’s memberships (renamed conferences keep the name of the time).

Consensus All-Americans 85

1941	Endicott Peabody OG
1931	Barry Wood QB
1930	Ben Ticknor C
1929	Ben Ticknor C
1923	Charles Hubbard OG
1922	Charles Hubbard OG
1921	Fiske Brown OG
1920	Tom Woods OG
1919	Eddie Casey RB
1916	Harrie Dadmun OG
1915	Eddie Mahan FB
1915	Joseph Gilman OT
1915	Richard King RB
1914	Eddie Mahan FB
1914	Huntington “Tack” Hardwick E
1914	Stan Pennock OG
1914	Walter Trumbull OT
1913	Charles Brickley FB
1913	Eddie Mahan FB
1913	Harvey Hitchcock OT
1913	Stan Pennock OG
1912	Charles E. Brickley RB
1912	Sam Felton E
1912	Stan Pennock OG
1911	Bob Fisher OG
1911	Percy Wendell RB
1910	Bob Fisher OG
1910	Percy Wendell RB
1910	Robert McKay OT
1909	Hamilton Fish III OT
1909	Wayland Manning Minot RB
1908	Charles Nourse C
1908	Hamilton Corbett RB
1908	Hamilton Fish OT
1907	Jack Wendell RB
1907	Patrick Grant C
1906	Charles Osborne OT
1906	Francis Burr OG
1905	Beaton Squires OT
1905	Daniel Hurley RB
1905	Francis Burr OG
1905	Karl Brill OT
1904	Daniel Hurley RB
1903	Andrew Marshall OG
1903	Daniel Knowlton OT
1902	Edward Bowditch E
1902	Thomas Graydon FB
1901	Charles A. Barnard OG
1901	Crawford Blagden OT
1901	Dave Campbell E
1901	Edward Bowditch E
1901	Oliver Cutts OT
1901	Robert Kernan RB
1901	Thomas Graydon FB
1901	William George Lee OG
1900	Charles Dudley Daly QB
1900	Dave Campbell E
1900	John Hallowell E
1899	Charles Dudley Daly QB
1899	Dave Campbell E
1898	Benjamin Dibblee RB
1898	Charles Dudley Daly QB
1898	John Hallowell E
1897	Allan Doucette C
1897	Benjamin Dibblee RB
1896	Edgar Wrightington RB
1896	Norman Cabot E
1895	Charley Brewer FB
1895	Norman Cabot E
1894	Bert Waters OT
1893	Charley Brewer FB
1893	Marshall Newell OT
1893	William H. Lewis C
1892	Bert Waters OG
1892	Charley Brewer FB
1892	Frank Hallowell E
1892	Marshall Newell OT
1892	William H. Lewis C
1891	Everett J. Lake RB
1891	Marshall Newell OT
1890	Dudley Dean QB
1890	Frank Hallowell E
1890	John Cranston C
1890	John J. Corbett RB
1890	Marshall Newell OT

Led the nation 1

1975	Jim Kubacki passer rating (147.6)

The NCAA’s official national leaders since 1937, from Wikipedia’s yearly leader lists.

In the Hall of Fame

Every inductee

Players: 18
Coaches: 3

2016	Pat McInally WR
2009	William H. Lewis C
1983	George Owen RB
1980	Barry Wood QB
1978	Lloyd Jordan coach here, 1950–⁠1956
1973	Bob Fisher OG
1973	Endicott Peabody OG
1972	Percy Wendell RB
1971	Charley Brewer FB
1970	Bill Reid FB
1968	Eddie Casey RB
1958	Dave Campbell E
1957	Marshall Newell OT
1954	Ben Ticknor C
1954	Dick Harlow coach here, 1935–⁠1947
1954	Hamilton Fish OT
1954	Huntington “Tack” Hardwick RB/E
1954	Stan Pennock OG
1951	Charles Dudley Daly QB
1951	Eddie Mahan FB
1951	Percy Haughton coach here, 1908–⁠1916

In the NFL Draft

By college

Drafted, rounds 1–⁠7: 9 since 1967
First-round picks: 0

The school

Harvard University

Enrollment: 30,259 8,844 undergraduates, fall 2024
Where: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Public or private: Private nonprofit; Research 1
Founded: 1636
Graduates’ median earnings: $101,817 10 years after starting

Enrollment, place and Carnegie research tier from the National Center for Education Statistics (IPEDS, public domain). Earnings from the US Department of Education’s College Scorecard (CC BY 4.0): the median for students who received federal aid and were working, not in school. Founding year from Wikidata. Every school’s in the data.

Voices

play-by-play

1982–⁠89Bob Gamere radio

From the announcers’ Wikipedia articles (CC BY-SA), with the years as each article gives them: those in Wikipedia’s Harvard football announcers category, and any whose article names them the program’s play-by-play voice. Television network crews and announcers whose articles give no years are left out.

Old photographs

Leslie, HarvardPhoto: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Bain News Service photograph collection, no known restrictions on publication
Morrison, HarvardPhoto: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Bain News Service photograph collection, no known restrictions on publication
Football men exercising, Harvard.Photo: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Bain News Service photograph collection, no known restrictions on publication
Gardner and Felton, HarvardPhoto: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Bain News Service photograph collection, no known restrictions on publication
Gardner and Felton, HarvardPhoto: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Bain News Service photograph collection, no known restrictions on publication
Milholland (Hvd.)Photo: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Bain News Service photograph collection, no known restrictions on publication

From the Library of Congress’s Prints & Photographs Division, with no known restrictions on publication. The records don’t give these a season; those they date are on their seasons’ pages.

On the newsreel

HARVARD-YALEUniversal Newsreel, November 28, 1967, the game. Catalog record at the National Archives
FOOTBALLUniversal Newsreel, October 31, 1967, the game. Catalog record at the National Archives
PRINCETON BLANKS HARVARD, 16 TO 0Universal Newsreel, November 9, 1964, the game. Catalog record at the National Archives
HARVARD 9 PRINCETON 7Universal Newsreel, November 13, 1961, the game. Catalog record at the National Archives
HARVARD BEATS YALEUniversal Newsreel, November 23, 1959, the game. Catalog record at the National Archives
YALE–HARVARDUniversal Newsreel, November 21, 1955, the game. Catalog record at the National Archives
YALE CRUSHES HARVARDUniversal Newsreel, November 21, 1949, the game. Catalog record at the National Archives
HARVARD BEATS YALE, 20-7Universal Newsreel, November 22, 1948, the game. Catalog record at the National Archives
YALE BEATS HARVARDUniversal Newsreel, November 25, 1946, the game. Watch at the National Archives
HARVARD DOWNS PRINCETON, 6-4Universal Newsreel, November 3, 1941, the game. Catalog record at the National Archives

And 11 more

GRIDIRON THRILLS OF THE WEEKUniversal Newsreel, November 27, 1939, the game. Catalog record at the National Archives
GRIDIRON THRILLS OF THE WEEKUniversal Newsreel, November 21, 1938, the game. Catalog record at the National Archives
STREAMLINED GALS GO BY AIRUniversal Newsreel, November 22, 1937, the game. Catalog record at the National Archives
FASCISTS MARK ANNIVERSARYUniversal Newsreel, November 8, 1937, the game. Catalog record at the National Archives
TERRIER PALS WITH KITTENUniversal Newsreel, November 1, 1937, the game. Catalog record at the National Archives
GRIDDERS SCORE IN UPSETSUniversal Newsreel, November 23, 1936, the game. Catalog record at the National Archives
SELECT ALL-AMERICA TEAMUniversal Newsreel, December 13, 1933. Catalog record at the National Archives
ALL-AMERICAN TEAM FOR 1932 HAS STARS FROM EVERY SECTIONUniversal Newsreel, December 8, 1932. Catalog record at the National Archives
FAIR HARVARD BOWS TO ELI, 3-0, IN GOLDEN JUBILEE GRID DUELUniversal Newsreel, November 23, 1931, the game. Catalog record at the National Archives
HERB SCORES LONE ARMY TOUCHDOWN TO BEAT HARVARD, 6-0Universal Newsreel, October 20, 1930, the game. Catalog record at the National Archives
60,000 SEE HARVARD TRIUMPHS OVER YALE, 10-6Universal Newsreel, November 27, 1929, the game. Catalog record at the National Archives

Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.

Films

Brown of Harvard1926, film, directed by Jack Conway
Harvard Beats Yale 29-292008, documentary, directed by Kevin Rafferty

Films: Wikidata (CC0) and Wikipedia’s lists and categories (CC BY-SA), about the program, its seasons, games and rivalries.

Season by season

National champions

Shaded: national title seasons, No. 1 in the final AP poll or claimed by Harvard (7 claimed).

Season	Record	Conf.	Elo
2026	5–⁠0	2–⁠0	1494
2025	9–⁠2	6–⁠1	1476
2024	8–⁠2	5–⁠2	1474
2023	8–⁠2	5–⁠2	1466
2022	6–⁠4	4–⁠3	1432
2021	8–⁠2	5–⁠2	1470
2019	4–⁠6	2–⁠5	1334
2018	6–⁠4	4–⁠3	1404
2017	5–⁠5	3–⁠4	1316
2016	7–⁠3	5–⁠2	1408
2015	9–⁠1	6–⁠1	1527
2014	10–⁠0	7–⁠0	1563
2013	9–⁠1	6–⁠1	1510
2012	8–⁠2	5–⁠2	1474
2011	9–⁠1	7–⁠0	1512
2010	7–⁠3	5–⁠2	1444
2009	7–⁠3	6–⁠1	1440
2008	9–⁠1	6–⁠1	1523
2007	8–⁠2	7–⁠0	1511
2006	7–⁠2	4–⁠2	1430
2005	7–⁠3	5–⁠2	1469
2004	10–⁠0	7–⁠0	1536
2003	7–⁠3	4–⁠3	1385
1991	0–⁠1		1314
1989	0–⁠1		1326

Every season back to 1875 (107 more)

Season	Record	Conf.	AP pre	Coach	Elo	SP+
1984	0–⁠1				1356
1983	1–⁠0				1416
1982	0–⁠1				1458
1981	5–⁠4–⁠1	4–⁠2–⁠1		Joseph Restic	1464	-3.4
1980	7–⁠3	4–⁠3		Joseph Restic	1466	-7.4
1979	3–⁠6	3–⁠4		Joseph Restic	1438	-0.9
1978	4–⁠4–⁠1	2–⁠4–⁠1		Joseph Restic	1465	-7.0
1977	4–⁠5	4–⁠3		Joseph Restic	1470	2.8
1976	6–⁠3	4–⁠3		Joseph Restic	1574	6.1
1975	7–⁠2	6–⁠1		Joseph Restic	1632	11.3
1974	7–⁠2	6–⁠1		Joseph Restic	1605	11.2
1973	7–⁠2	5–⁠2		Joseph Restic	1531	6.6
1972	4–⁠4–⁠1	3–⁠3–⁠1		Joseph Restic	1459	3.2
1971	5–⁠4	4–⁠3		Joseph Restic	1521	0.8
1970	7–⁠2	5–⁠2		John Yovicsin	1556	10.8
1969	3–⁠6	2–⁠5		John Yovicsin	1458
1968	8–⁠0–⁠1	6–⁠0–⁠1		John Yovicsin	1641
1967	6–⁠3	4–⁠3		John Yovicsin	1575
1966	8–⁠1	6–⁠1		John Yovicsin	1618
1965	5–⁠2–⁠2	3–⁠2–⁠2		John Yovicsin	1549
1964	6–⁠3	5–⁠2		John Yovicsin	1532
1963	5–⁠2–⁠2	4–⁠2–⁠1		John Yovicsin	1557
1962	6–⁠3	5–⁠2		John Yovicsin	1565
1961	6–⁠3	6–⁠1		John Yovicsin	1520
1960	5–⁠4	4–⁠3		John Yovicsin	1463
1959	6–⁠3	4–⁠3		John Yovicsin	1513
1958	4–⁠5	3–⁠4		John Yovicsin	1403
1957	3–⁠5	2–⁠5		John Yovicsin	1346
1956	2–⁠6	2–⁠5		Lloyd Jordan	1349
1955	3–⁠4–⁠1			Lloyd Jordan	1416
1954	4–⁠3–⁠1			Lloyd Jordan	1484
1953	6–⁠2			Lloyd Jordan	1496
1952	5–⁠4			Lloyd Jordan	1381
1951	3–⁠5–⁠1			Lloyd Jordan	1327
1950	1–⁠7			Lloyd Jordan	1275
1949	1–⁠8			Arthur Valpey	1333
1948	4–⁠4		18	Arthur Valpey	1457
1947	4–⁠5			Dick Harlow	1398
1946	7–⁠2			Dick Harlow	1481
1945	5–⁠3			Dick Harlow	1461
1944	1–⁠0			Henry Lamar	1487
1942	2–⁠6–⁠1			Dick Harlow	1432
1941	5–⁠2–⁠1			Dick Harlow	1557
1940	3–⁠2–⁠3			Dick Harlow	1511
1939	4–⁠4			Dick Harlow	1470
1938	4–⁠4			Dick Harlow	1532
1937	5–⁠2–⁠1			Dick Harlow	1540
1936	3–⁠4–⁠1			Dick Harlow	1414
1935	3–⁠5			Dick Harlow	1396
1934	3–⁠5			Eddie Casey	1416
1933	5–⁠2–⁠1			Eddie Casey	1511
1932	5–⁠3			Eddie Casey	1493
1931	7–⁠1			Eddie Casey	1562
1930	4–⁠4–⁠1			Arnold Horween	1488
1929	5–⁠2–⁠1			Arnold Horween	1547
1928	5–⁠2–⁠1			Arnold Horween	1530
1927	4–⁠4			Arnold Horween	1434
1926	3–⁠5			Arnold Horween	1418
1925	4–⁠3–⁠1			Bob Fisher	1467
1924	4–⁠4			Bob Fisher	1458
1923	4–⁠3–⁠1			Bob Fisher	1525
1922	7–⁠2			Bob Fisher	1635
1921	7–⁠2–⁠1			Bob Fisher	1630
1920	8–⁠0–⁠1			Bob Fisher	1671
1919	9–⁠0–⁠1			Bob Fisher	1633
1918few games on file	2–⁠1			Pooch Donovan	1571
1916	7–⁠3			Percy Haughton	1625
1915	8–⁠1			Percy Haughton	1703
1914	7–⁠0–⁠2			Percy Haughton	1728
1913	9–⁠0			Percy Haughton	1731
1912	9–⁠0			Percy Haughton	1722
1911	6–⁠2–⁠1			Percy Haughton	1639
1910	8–⁠0–⁠1			Percy Haughton	1684
1909	8–⁠1			Percy Haughton	1663
1908	9–⁠0–⁠1			Percy Haughton	1670
1907	7–⁠3			Joshua Crane	1583
1906	10–⁠1			Bill Reid	1682
1905	8–⁠2–⁠1			Bill Reid	1649
1904	7–⁠2–⁠1			Edgar Wrightington	1634
1903	9–⁠3			John Cranston	1652
1902	11–⁠1			John Wells Farley	1751
1901	12–⁠0			Bill Reid	1807
1900	10–⁠1			Benjamin Dibblee	1743
1899	10–⁠0–⁠1			Benjamin Dibblee	1756
1898	11–⁠0			William Cameron Forbes	1737
1897	10–⁠1–⁠1			William Cameron Forbes	1632
1896	7–⁠4			Bert Waters	1567
1895	8–⁠2–⁠1				1648
1894	11–⁠2			William A. Brooks	1676
1893	12–⁠1				1714
1892	10–⁠1			George A. Stewart & George C. Adams	1682
1891	13–⁠1			George A. Stewart & George C. Adams	1689
1890	11–⁠0			George A. Stewart & George C. Adams	1709
1889	9–⁠2				1633
1888	12–⁠1				1671
1887	10–⁠1				1643
1886	12–⁠2			Frank Mason	1598
1884	7–⁠4				1508
1883	8–⁠2				1552
1882	7–⁠1				1551
1881	6–⁠1–⁠1			Lucius Littauer	1530
1880	2–⁠2–⁠2				1499
1879	2–⁠1–⁠2				1507
1878few games on file	1–⁠2				1515
1877few games on file	3–⁠1				1535
1876few games on file	3–⁠1				1523
1875few games on file	4–⁠0				1526

Officially 918–⁠415–⁠50 since 1873 (per Wikipedia, rechecked weekly); game by game here, 806–⁠315–⁠42 (1,163 of its 1,383 games are on file). Our file starts in 1875; the program began in 1873. Some games are missing from our source.

No season on file for 1885, 1917, 1943, 1985–⁠88, 1990, 1992–⁠2002, 2020: the program may not have played, or our source may be missing them.

Records are computed from every game on file at CollegeFootballData.com, whose coverage of the earliest seasons can be incomplete. Elo is this site’s own rating; see how it works on the records page.