1939 Harvard Crimson football team

The 1939 Harvard Crimson football team was an American football team that represented Harvard University as an independent during the 1939 college football season. In its fifth season under head coach Dick Harlow, the team compiled a 4–4 record and outscored opponents by a total of 162 to 67.^[1][2]

1939 Harvard Crimson football
Conference	Independent
Record	4–4
Head coach	Dick Harlow (5th season)
Home stadium	Harvard Stadium
Seasons ← 1938 1940 →

1939 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 4 Cornell			–					8	–	0	–	0
No. 10 Duquesne			–					8	–	0	–	1
Swarthmore			–					6	–	0	–	1
Scranton			–					7	–	0	–	2
Princeton			–					7	–	1	–	0
La Salle			–					6	–	1	–	1
Penn State			–					5	–	1	–	2
No. 11 Boston College			–					9	–	2	–	0
No. 17 Fordham			–					6	–	2	–	0
Villanova			–					6	–	2	–	0
Boston University			–					5	–	3	–	0
Brown			–					5	–	3	–	1
Dartmouth			–					5	–	3	–	1
Hofstra			–					4	–	3	–	0
NYU			–					5	–	4	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					5	–	4	–	0
Harvard			–					4	–	4	–	0
Manhattan			–					4	–	4	–	0
Penn			–					4	–	4	–	0
Syracuse			–					3	–	3	–	2
Vermont			–					3	–	3	–	2
Tufts			–					3	–	4	–	1
Yale			–					3	–	4	–	1
Army			–					3	–	4	–	2
Bucknell			–					3	–	5	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					3	–	5	–	0
Providence			–					3	–	5	–	0
Columbia			–					2	–	4	–	2
Massachusetts State			–					2	–	5	–	2
Colgate			–					2	–	5	–	1
Temple			–					2	–	7	–	0
CCNY			–					1	–	7	–	0
Buffalo			–					0	–	7	–	0
Rankings from AP Poll

Harvard was ranked at No. 57 (out of 609 teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1939.^[3]

The team played its home games at Harvard Stadium in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 7	Bates	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 20–0		[4]
October 14	at Chicago	Stagg Field Chicago, IL	W 61–0		[5]
October 21	Penn	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	L 7–22	30,000	[6]
October 28	Dartmouth	BostonStadium Cambridge, MA (rivalry)	L 0–16	35,000	[7]
November 4	at Princeton	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	L 6–9		[8]
November 11	Army	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 15–0	45,000	[9]
November 18	New Hampshire	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 46–0	15,000	[10][11]
November 25	Yale	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	L 7–20	52,000	[12]