Today's Tidbit... When Harvard Rained Supreme

'Evenly Matched,' Boston Globe, October 30, 1898.

After Harvard beat Carlisle, 11-5, in the eighth game of the season, Harvard’s opponents had scored only 13 points on the Crimson during the 1898 season with Penn, Brown, and Yale left to play.

The Crimson team included two future College Football Hall of Famers. One, quarterback Charles Daly, became a three-time All-America at Harvard before entering West Point upon graduation and playing two more years there. He later coached Army for eight years in a stretch interrupted by WWI. The other Hall of Famer was Percy Haughton, a tackle who returned to Cambridge in 1908, coaching Harvard to four national titles over six years.

Harvard’s 1898 team was also a juggernaut. The week after the illustration above was published, they faced Penn, took them down 10-0, and then won 17-6 over Brown.