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Conference | Ivy League |
Record | 7–3 (4–3 Ivy) |
Head coach |
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Captain | Charles F. Durst |
Home stadium | Harvard Stadium |
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Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yale $ | 6 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 8 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cornell | 5 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Harvard | 4 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Brown | 4 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Princeton | 4 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dartmouth | 4 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Penn | 1 | – | 6 | – | 0 | 1 | – | 9 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Columbia | 0 | – | 7 | – | 0 | 1 | – | 9 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1980 Harvard Crimson football team was an American football team that represented Harvard University during the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season. Harvard tied for third place in the Ivy League.
In their tenth year under head coach Joe Restic, the Crimson compiled a 7–3 record and outscored opponents 159 to 138. Charles F. Durst was the team captain. [1]
Harvard's 4–3 conference record tied for third in the Ivy League standings. The Crimson were evenly matched by Ivy opponents, with 106 points scored and 106 points against. [2]
Ivy League football teams expanded their schedules to 10 games in 1980, making this the first year since 1953 that the Crimson played three games against non-Ivy opponents.
Harvard played its home games at Harvard Stadium in the Allston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.
Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source | ||
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September 20 | Columbia |
| W 26–6 | 10,000 | [3] | ||
September 27 | Holy Cross* |
| W 14–13 | 18,000 | [4] | ||
October 4 | at Army* | W 15–10 | 38,479 | [5] | |||
October 11 | Cornell |
| W 20–12 | 10,000 | [6] | ||
October 18 | at Dartmouth | L 12–30 | 20,000 | [7] | |||
October 25 | at Princeton | L 3–7 | 6,868 | [8] | |||
November 1 | Brown |
| W 17–16 | 16,000 | [9] | ||
November 8 | William & Mary* |
| W 24–13 | 10,000 | [10] | ||
November 15 | at Penn | W 28–17 | 5,917 | [11] | |||
November 22 | Yale |
| L 0–14 | 41,000 | [12] | ||
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