The 1887 Harvard Crimson football team represented

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in the

1887 college football season The 1887 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing Yale as having been selected national champions. In the West, the 1887 Michigan Wolverines football team compiled a ...

. They finished with a 10–1 record. In the first 10 games of the season, the Crimson outscored opponents 652 to 6. The sole loss came in the final game on November 24, 1887, a 17-8 loss against Yale in

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Harvard Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

Harvard Crimson football seasons

Harvard Crimson football The Harvard Crimson football program represents Harvard University in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA). Harvard's football program is one of the oldest in the world, having begun c ...

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