1943 Harvard Crimson football team

The 1943 Harvard Crimson football team was an American football team that represented Harvard University during the 1943 college football season. In its first season under head coach Henry Lamar, the team compiled a 2–2–1 record and was outscored 39-34 by opponents. Lloyd M. Anderson was the team captain.[1]

1943 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record2–2–1
Head coach
CaptainLloyd M. Anderson
Home stadiumHarvard Stadium
Seasons
← 1942
1944 →
1943 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Boston College  401
Franklin & Marshall  710
Dartmouth  610
Rochester  610
No. 11 Army  721
Holy Cross  620
Tufts  620
No. 20 Penn  621
Brown  530
Villanova  530
Colgate  531
Penn State  531
Bucknell  640
Cornell  640
Harvard  221
Yale  450
Pittsburgh  350
Temple  260
CCNY  131
Princeton  160
Carnegie Tech  041
Columbia  080
Rankings from AP Poll

For 1943, and again in 1944, rather than scheduling its usual mix of Ivy League opponents and national college football powerhouses, Harvard played a shorter schedule of smaller New England colleges and military teams. Its football record book describes these two World War II-era seasons as "informal".[1]

In the final Litkenhous Ratings, Harvard ranked 188th among the nation's college and service teams with a rating of 41.9.[2]

Harvard played its home games at Harvard Stadium in the Allston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2 3:00 p.m. at Camp Edwards
W 7–0 10,000 [3][4][5]
October 9 WPI
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
L 0–13 8,000 [6]
November 6 2:30 p.m. Camp EdwardsW 14–7 4,500 [7][8]
November 13 Tufts
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
L 7–13 10,000 [9]
November 20 Boston College
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
T 6–6 45,000 [10]

References