1975 Harvard Crimson football team

American college football season

1975 Harvard Crimson football
Ivy League champion
Conference	Ivy League
Record	7–2 (6–1 Ivy)
Head coach	Joe Restic (5th season)
Captain	Dan Jiggetts
Home stadium	Harvard Stadium
Seasons ← 1974 1976 →

1975 Ivy League football standings
v t e	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
Harvard $	6	–	1	–	0	7	–	2	–	0
Brown	5	–	1	–	1	6	–	2	–	1
Yale	5	–	2	–	0	7	–	2	–	0
Dartmouth	4	–	2	–	1	5	–	3	–	1
Princeton	3	–	4	–	0	4	–	5	–	0
Penn	2	–	5	–	0	3	–	6	–	0
Columbia	2	–	5	–	0	2	–	7	–	0
Cornell	0	–	7	–	0	1	–	8	–	0

$ – Conference champion

The 1975 Harvard Crimson football team was an American football team that represented Harvard University during the 1975 NCAA Division I football season. A year after sharing the Ivy League crown, the Crimson won the championship outright in 1975.

In their fifth year under head coach Joe Restic, the Crimson compiled a 7–2 record and outscored opponents 216 to 133. Daniel M. Jiggetts was the team captain.^[1]

Harvard's 6–1 conference record placed first in the Ivy League standings, for the second year in a row. The Crimson outscored Ivy opponents 189 to 113.^[2]

Harvard played its home games at Harvard Stadium in the Allston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 27	Holy Cross*	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 18–7	11,000	^[3]
October 4	Boston University*	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	L 9–13	10,200	^[4]
October 11	Columbia	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 35–30	11,000	^[5]
October 18	at Cornell	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	W 34–13	18,000	^[6]
October 25	Dartmouth	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	W 24–10	31,000	^[7]
November 1	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	W 21–3	17,256	^[8]
November 8	Princeton	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	L 20–24	23,000	^[9]
November 15	at Brown	Brown Stadium Providence, RI	W 45–26	18,000	^[10]
November 22	at Yale	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (The Game)	W 10–7	66,846	^[11]
*Non-conference game

References

^ "Football Record Book: Year-by-Year Results" (PDF). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
^ "Year-by-Year History". Ivy League Football Media Guide (PDF). Princeton, N.J.: Ivy League. 2017. p. 27. Retrieved July 10, 2020.
^ Concannon, Joe (September 28, 1975). "Harvard Discovers Spark, Halts HC, 18-7". Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. p. 78 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Roberts, Ernie (October 5, 1975). "'Throwback' to '69: BU's Big Play Stuns Harvard Again, 13-9". Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. p. 88 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Rogers, Thomas (October 12, 1975). "Columbia Edged by Harvard; Crimson Withstands Lion Rally, 35-30". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
^ "Harvard Victor over Cornell; Crimson Routs Big Red, 34-13". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. October 19, 1975. p. S6.
^ McGowen, Deane (October 26, 1975). "Ohio State, Harvard Win". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
^ McGowen, Deane (November 2, 1975). "Brown and Harvard Triumph; Crimson Sets Back Penn, 21 to 3". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
^ White, Gordon S. Jr. (November 9, 1975). "Harvard Is Toppled by Princeton, 24-20; Crimson Halted for 3 Quarters, Rally Fails". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
^ White, Gordon S. Jr. (November 16, 1975). "Harvard Routs Brown by 45-26 to Share Ivy Lead with Yale". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
^ Wallace, William N. (November 23, 1975). "Harvard Tops Yale, 10-7, and Takes Ivy Title". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.

v t e Harvard Crimson football
Venues	Boston Baseball Grounds (1877–1881) Holmes Field (1881–1882, 1888) Jarvis Field (1883–1893) Soldier's Field (1894–1903) Harvard Stadium (1903–present)
Bowls and rivalries	1920 Rose Bowl Dartmouth Penn Princeton Yale
Culture and lore	"Ten Thousand Men of Harvard" 1874 McGill game 1921 Centre game 1968 Yale game (Harvard Beats Yale 29–29) 2004 Harvard–Yale prank
People	Head coaches NFL draftees
Seasons	1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
National championship seasons in bold

v t e Ivy League football champions
I-A/FBS	Yale (1956) Princeton (1957) Dartmouth (1958) Penn (1959) Yale (1960) Columbia & Harvard (1961) Dartmouth (1962) Dartmouth & Princeton (1963) Princeton (1964) Dartmouth (1965) Dartmouth, Harvard, & Princeton (1966) Yale (1967) Harvard & Yale (1968) Dartmouth, Yale, & Princeton (1969) Dartmouth (1970) Dartmouth & Cornell (1971) Dartmouth (1972) Dartmouth (1973) Yale (1974) Harvard (1975) Yale & Brown (1976) Yale (1977) Dartmouth (1978) Yale (1979) Yale (1980) Yale & Dartmouth (1981)
I-AA/FCS	Dartmouth, Harvard & Penn (1982) Harvard & Penn (1983) Penn (1984) Penn (1985) Penn (1986) Harvard (1987) Penn & Cornell (1988) Yale & Princeton (1989) Dartmouth & Cornell (1990) Dartmouth (1991) Dartmouth & Princeton (1992) Penn (1993) Penn (1994) Princeton (1995) Dartmouth (1996) Harvard (1997) Penn (1998) Brown & Yale (1999) Penn (2000) Harvard (2001) Penn (2002) Penn (2003) Harvard (2004) Brown (2005) Princeton & Yale (2006) Harvard (2007) Harvard & Brown (2008) Penn (2009) Penn (2010) Harvard (2011) Penn (2012) Harvard & Princeton (2013) Harvard (2014) Harvard, Dartmouth, & Penn (2015) Princeton & Penn (2016) Yale (2017) Princeton (2018) Dartmouth & Yale (2019) No season (2020) Dartmouth & Princeton (2021) Yale (2022) Dartmouth, Harvard, & Yale (2023)

Ivy League football champions

I-A/FBS