The 1921 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1921 college football season. The Crimson finished with a 7–2–1 record under third-year head coach Bob Fisher. Walter Camp selected one Harvard player, guard John Fiske Brown, as a first-team member of his 1921 College Football All-America Team.
Schedule
Game summaries Game 1: Boston University
Harvard began the 1921 season with a doubleheader at Harvard Stadium on September 24; both games were played with eight-minute quarters. The first game of the doubleheader was against Boston University. Harvard's team played conservatively and the line played better than was expected. With the ball on the Boston 16-yard line, they completed a forward pass and called a series of rushes which culminated in a touchdown rush by George Owen in the first quarter. Charles Buell converted the extra point to make the score 7–0. The only other scoring play in the contest was a field goal kicked from the Boston 18-yard line by Buell, which followed an 80-yard kick return by Vinton Chapin.
Harvard's season-opening starting lineup was Kunhardt at center; Kane, Hubbard, Brocker, Brown, Lockwood, and Crocker also on the line; Buell at quarterback, Fitts and Owen at halfback, and Chapin at fullback.
Game 2: Middlebury
Harvard's starters for the game were Bradford at center, Hartley, Henry, Anthony, Grew, Hobson, and Macomber also on the line, Johnson at quarterback, Pfaffman and Rouillard at halfback, and Churchill at fullback.
Game 3: Holy Cross
Game 4: Indiana
Game 5: Georgia
Game 6: Penn State
Game 7: Centre
Game 8: Princeton
Game 9: Brown
Game 10: Yale
Personnel Roster Wesley Brocker Guard 1 Mechanic Arts HS 26 Fiske Brown Guard 1 Andover HS 21 Henry W. Clark Center Phillips Exeter Academy 22 John Crocker End 1 Groton School 21 R. P. Field End St. Mark's School 20 H. S. Grew Guard St. Mark's School 20 Charles Hubbard Tackle 1 Milton HS 19 Henry Janin End Pomfret School 21 Richmond Kane Tackle 1 St. George's School 21 Philip Kunhardt Center 1 Groton School 21 Alexander Ladd Tackle Milton HS 19 Benoni Lockwood Tackle 1 Groton School 19 Charles Macomber End Newton HS 21 Charles Tierney Center Andover HS 27 Charles Buell Quarterback 1 Pomfret School 22 Vinton Chapin Back 1 St. Mark's School 21 Winthrop Churchill Back Milton HS 20 Philip Coburn Back Noble and Greenough School 21 Roscoe Fitts Back 1 Tufts University 20 Erwin Gehrke Back Cleveland HS 22 Mitchell Gratwick Back Andover HS 21 Percy Jenkins Back Mercersburg Academy 20 Frank Johnson Quarterback Gunnery School 24 George Owen Back 1 Newton HS 20 Karl Pfaffman Back Boston College HS 21
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