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1941 Harvard Crimson football team
| 1941 Harvard Crimson football |
|---|
| Ivy League |
| 5–2–1 (4–2 Ivy) |
| Dick Harlow (7th season) |
| Harvard Stadium |
The 1941 Harvard Crimson football team was an American football team that represented Harvard University in the Ivy League during the 1941 college football season. In its seventh season under head coach Dick Harlow, the team compiled a 5–2–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 70 to 43. The team was ranked No. 17 in the AP Poll released on November 10, 1941, and No. 19 in the poll released on November 24, 1941. The team was unranked in the final AP Poll but was ranked at No. 32 (out of 681 teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1941.
Harvard's Endicott Peabody won the 1941 Knute Rockne Memorial Trophy as the best collegiate lineman and was the only player to be unanimously selected by all nine official selectors as a first-team player on the 1941 All-America team. Peabody and end Loren MacKinney were also selected by the Associated Press as first-team players on the 1941 All-Eastern football team. Peabody was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame and served as Governor of Massachusetts.
| Date | Opponent | Rank | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 4 | at Penn | Franklin FieldPhiladelphia, PA (rivalry) | L 0–19 | 40,000 | ||
| October 11 | Cornell | Harvard StadiumBoston, MA | L 0–7 | 20,000 | ||
| October 18 | Dartmouth | Harvard StadiumBoston, MA (rivalry) | W 7–0 | 37,000 | ||
| October 25 | No. 5 Navy* | Harvard StadiumBoston, MA | W 20–6 | 40,000 | ||
| November 1 | at Princeton | Palmer StadiumPrinceton, NJ (rivalry) | W 6–4 | 18,000 | ||
| November 8 | No. 11 Army* | Harvard StadiumBoston, MA | W 20–6 | 53,000 | ||
| November 15 | Brown | No. 17 | Harvard StadiumBoston, MA | W 23–7 | 20,000 | |
| November 22 | Yale | Harvard StadiumBoston, MA (rivalry) | W 14–0 | 53,000 | ||
| *Non-conference gameRankings from AP Poll released prior to the game |
| Week | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | — | — | 17 | — | 19 | — |
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