1908 Harvard

9–⁠0–⁠1, coached by Percy Haughton. Share

Harvard, 1908 — Photo: Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Schedule and results

Biggest winBeat Springfield 44–⁠0Oct 17
By 44 points, its widest win.

Each game’s margin, wins above the line and losses below.

Date	Opponent	Result
Sep 19	vsBowdoin	W 5–⁠0	88%
Sep 26	vsMaine	W 16–⁠0	94%
Oct 3	vsBates	W 18–⁠0	88%
Oct 10	vsWilliams	W 10–⁠0	81%
Oct 17	vsSpringfield	W 44–⁠0	94%
Oct 24	atNavy	T 6–⁠6	33%
Oct 31	vsBrown	W 6–⁠2	62%
Nov 7	vsCarlisle	W 17–⁠0	38%
Nov 14	vsDartmouth	W 6–⁠0	64%
Nov 21	atYale	W 4–⁠0	30%

Elo: a pregame chance from scores alone.

How it ended: Beat Yale 4–⁠0.

In program history: The 19th-best season in program history by end-of-season Elo (of 132 on file).

Photographs from 1908

Harvard 4 - Yale 0, November 21, 1908Photo: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Panoramic photographs, no known restrictions on publication
The game
Harvard vs. Yale, Yale Field, New Haven, Conn., Nov. 21, 1908Photo: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Panoramic photographs, no known restrictions on publication
The game
Harvard vs. Yale, Yale field, New Haven, Conn., Nov. 21, 1908Photo: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Panoramic photographs, no known restrictions on publication
The game

Photographs from the Library of Congress’s Prints & Photographs Division, with no known restrictions on publication. Captions as each collection catalogues them.

Players on this team

Before 2004 our records hold honors and the draft; these are the players whose college years here, from their Wikipedia articles or their honors, include 1908.

3 consensus All-AmericansHamilton Fish, OT; Charles Nourse, C; Hamilton Corbett, RB

Record: 9–⁠0–⁠1
Conference: —
AP poll: Began in 1936
Points: 132–⁠8
Coach: Percy Haughton
Elo: 1670 +114 this season
SP+ rating: —
SRS: 23.9 No. 2 of 67 major-college teams
Recruiting class: —