1889 Harvard Crimson football team

1889 Harvard Crimson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–2
Head coach
  • None
CaptainArthur Cumnock
Home stadiumJarvis Field
1889 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton     10 0 0
Massachusetts     2 0 0
Yale     15 1 0
Harvard     9 2 0
Franklin & Marshall     5 1 1
Dickinson     4 1 1
Navy     4 1 1
Tufts     3 1 0
Lehigh     8 3 2
Cornell     8 4 0
Penn     7 6 0
Brown     2 2 0
Penn State     2 2 0
Wesleyan     5 7 1
Bucknell     2 3 1
Lafayette     3 4 2
Columbia     2 7 2
Fordham     1 3 0
Rutgers     1 4 0
NYU     0 2 0

The 1889 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1889 college football season. The Crimson finished with a 9–2 record. The team won its first ten games by a combined score of 404–6, but lost its last two games, against Princeton and Yale, giving up 41 points against Princeton.

Three Harvard players were selected as first-team players on the 1889 All-America college football team: end and team Arthur Cumnock, halfback James P. Lee, and guard John Cranston.