The 1906 Harvard Crimson football team represented

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in the 1906 college football season. The Crimson finished with a 10–1 record under second-year head coach

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. The team won its first ten games by a combined 167–20 score, but lost its final game against rival Yale by a 6–0 score.

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selected only one Harvard player, guard

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, as a first-team player on his

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selected two Harvard players as first-team members of his All-America team: Burr and tackle Charles Osborne.

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