American college football season
The Crimson defeated Cornell, 35-22 The 2019 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University during the 2019 NCAA Division I FCS football season as a member of the Ivy League . They were led by 26th-year head coach Tim Murphy and played their home games at Harvard Stadium . They finished the season 4–6 overall and 2–5 in Ivy League play to tie for sixth place. Harvard averaged 10,812 fans per game.
The Ivy League released their preseason media poll on August 8, 2019. The Crimson were picked to finish in fourth place.[1]
Predicted finish Team Votes (1st place) 1 Yale 119 (9) 2 Dartmouth 111 (2) 3 Princeton 107 (4) 4 Harvard 93 (1) 5 Penn 67 6 Columbia 61 (1) 7 Cornell 29 8 Brown 24
Date Time Opponent Site TV Result Attendance September 21 4:00 pm at San Diego * WCC Network L 23–312,607 September 27 7:00 p.m. Brown ESPNews W 42–710,088 October 5 1:00 p.m. Howard * Harvard Stadium Boston, MA ESPN+ W 62–178,234 October 12 1:00 p.m. Cornell Harvard Stadium Boston, MA ESPN+ W 35–227,513 October 19 1:00 p.m. at Holy Cross * PLN W 31–2110,381 October 26 1:00 p.m. at No. 13 Princeton ESPN+ L 24–309,078 November 2 1:00 p.m. No. 15 Dartmouth Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry ) ESPN+ L 6–920,112 November 9 1:00 p.m. at Columbia ESPN+/SNY L 10–17 OT 4,739 November 16 Noon Penn Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry ) ESPN+/NESN L 20–248,113 November 23 Noon at No. 24 Yale ESPNU L 43–50 2OT 44,989
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1 2 3 4 Total Crimson 0 0 7 16 23 Toreros 10 14 7 0 31
1 2 3 4 Total Bears 7 0 0 0 7 Crimson 7 14 7 14 42
1 2 3 4 Total Bison 3 0 7 7 17 Crimson 7 34 14 7 62
1 2 3 4 Total Big Red 7 3 0 12 22 Crimson 7 21 0 7 35
1 2 3 4 Total Crimson 17 7 7 0 31 Crusaders 7 0 7 7 21
1 2 3 4 Total Crimson 0 14 0 10 24 No. 13 Tigers 10 0 13 7 30
1 2 3 4 Total No. 15 Big Green 0 3 0 6 9 Crimson 3 0 0 3 6
1 2 3 4 OT Total Crimson 7 0 0 3 0 10 Lions 0 7 0 3 7 17
1 2 3 4 Total Quakers 7 3 7 7 24 Crimson 7 6 7 0 20
1 2 3 4 OT 2OT Total Crimson 3 12 14 7 7 0 43 No. 24 Bulldogs 3 0 16 17 7 7 50
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