# 2019 Harvard Crimson football team

The 2019 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University during the 2019 NCAA Division I FCS football season as a member of the Ivy League. They were led by 26th-year head coach Tim Murphy and played their home games at Harvard Stadium. They finished the season 4–6 overall and 2–5 in Ivy League play to tie for sixth place. Harvard averaged 10,812 fans per game.

## Preseason
### Preseason media poll

The Ivy League released their preseason media poll on August 8, 2019. The Crimson were picked to finish in fourth place.
| Predicted finish | Team | Votes (1st place) |
| 1 | Yale | 119 (9) |
| 2 | Dartmouth | 111 (2) |
| 3 | Princeton | 107 (4) |
| 4 | Harvard | 93 (1) |
| 5 | Penn | 67 |
| 6 | Columbia | 61 (1) |
| 7 | Cornell | 29 |
| 8 | Brown | 24 |

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Opponent | Site | TV | Result | Attendance |
| September 21 | 4:00 pm | at San Diego* | Torero StadiumSan Diego, CA | WCC Network | L 23–31 | 2,607 |
| September 27 | 7:00 p.m. | Brown | Harvard StadiumBoston, MA | ESPNews | W 42–7 | 10,088 |
| October 5 | 1:00 p.m. | Howard* | Harvard StadiumBoston, MA | ESPN+ | W 62–17 | 8,234 |
| October 12 | 1:00 p.m. | Cornell | Harvard StadiumBoston, MA | ESPN+ | W 35–22 | 7,513 |
| October 19 | 1:00 p.m. | at Holy Cross* | Fitton FieldWorcester, MA | PLN | W 31–21 | 10,381 |
| October 26 | 1:00 p.m. | at No. 13 Princeton | Powers Field at Princeton StadiumPrinceton, NJ (rivalry) | ESPN+ | L 24–30 | 9,078 |
| November 2 | 1:00 p.m. | No. 15 Dartmouth | Harvard StadiumBoston, MA (rivalry) | ESPN+ | L 6–9 | 20,112 |
| November 9 | 1:00 p.m. | at Columbia | Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien StadiumNew York, NY | ESPN+/SNY | L 10–17 $^{OT}$ | 4,739 |
| November 16 | Noon | Penn | Harvard StadiumBoston, MA (rivalry) | ESPN+/NESN | L 20–24 | 8,113 |
| November 23 | Noon | at No. 24 Yale | Yale BowlNew Haven, CT (rivalry) | ESPNU | L 43–50 $^{2OT}$ | 44,989 |
| *Non-conference gameRankings from STATS Poll released prior to the gameAll times are in Eastern time |||||||

## Game summaries
### At San Diego

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Crimson | 0 | 0 | 7 | 16 | 23 |
| Toreros | 10 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 31 |

### Brown

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Bears | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Crimson | 7 | 14 | 7 | 14 | 42 |

### Howard

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Bison | 3 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 17 |
| Crimson | 7 | 34 | 14 | 7 | 62 |

### Cornell

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Big Red | 7 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 22 |
| Crimson | 7 | 21 | 0 | 7 | 35 |

### At Holy Cross

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Crimson | 17 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 31 |
| Crusaders | 7 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 21 |

### At Princeton

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Crimson | 0 | 14 | 0 | 10 | 24 |
| No. 13 Tigers | 10 | 0 | 13 | 7 | 30 |

### Dartmouth

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| No. 15 Big Green | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 9 |
| Crimson | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 |

### At Columbia

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | OT | Total |
| Crimson | 7 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| Lions | 0 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 17 |

### Penn

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Quakers | 7 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 24 |
| Crimson | 7 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 20 |

### At Yale

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | OT | 2OT | Total |
| Crimson | 3 | 12 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 43 |
| No. 24 Bulldogs | 3 | 0 | 16 | 17 | 7 | 7 | 50 |