Athletics

Coverage of the Harvard sports and athletics—from team achievements to individual standout stories.

Front page of The Harvard Bulletin from November 7, 1898, featuring the headline “Harvard Wins” about a football victory over Pennsylvania and articles on Harvard graduates’ service in the Spanish-American War

A History of Harvard Magazine

Harvard’s independent alumni magazine—at 127 years old 

by Olivia Farrar

Charles Brickley pictures alone in an old-fashioned football uniform

Harvard Football Great Performances: Charlie Brickley ’15

A Harvard great with an all-time boot

by Dick Friedman

A Harvard player catches a ball at eye level.

Harvard Great Performances: Carl Morris ’03

2000-02: a Crimson Wide Receiver's Fab Four

by Dick Friedman

Photograph of Louisa Thomas standing outside

Profile of Louisa Thomas, “New Yorker” sports critic

Louisa Thomas takes a different view.

by Jacob Sweet

Outdoors at Boston's Armenian Heritage Park

Urban Adventure Quest, Boston

Scavenger-hunting in historic Boston

by Nell Porter-Brown

In Harvard Yard, workers unload gigantic heads of lettuce and other greens from a truck prominently labeled United Farm Workers as students celebrate the University's decision to support the union workers by buying only UFW-certified produce.

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Master Yon Lee extends his hands in a tai chi pose.

Tai chi master Yon Lee

The healing of Master Yon Lee

by Jacob Sweet

Football player Chubb Peabody, in pads and helmet, charges forward.

Harvard Great Performances: Endicott Peabody ’42

1941: “Chub” Peabody ’42 bottles up “Barnacle Bill.”

by Dick Friedman

Harvard Great Performances: Terence Patterson ’00

1999: Terence Patterson ’00 and his four scores

by Dick Friedman

Harvard Football Great Performances: Barry Wood ’32

October 19, 1929: Barry Wood Beats Army, 20-20

by Dick Friedman

Graphic with red back ground and in white type which reads—At Home with Harvard: Women in Sports

At Home with Harvard: Women in Sports

Celebrating women athletes raising the bar in their sports