Athletics

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

Harvard Football: Harvard 34, Cornell 10

The Crimson stays unbeaten following a hard fight with the Big Red

by Dick Friedman

Harvard squeezes by Dartmouth, 14-13, for twenty-first straight win

Harvard squeezes by Dartmouth, 14-13, for its twenty-first straight win.

by Dick Friedman

Harvard buries Princeton with a “swarm of points,” 42-7

Harvard buries Princeton with a “swarm of points,” 42-7

by Dick Friedman

Harvard football squad numbs Lafayette’s Leopards, 42-0

On a sparklingly cold day, the Crimson numbed the Leopards. 

by Dick Friedman

Harvard football rolls out a formidable early season

Formidable early-season football

by Dick Friedman

Tim Murphy is Harvard’s greatest football coach

Harvard’s greatest football coach—and one of the best anywhere

by Dick Friedman

Harvard puts Cornell away, 40-3, and is 2-0 in Ivy play

A semblance of a competitive game becomes a rout.

by Dick Friedman

Harvard football 2015: the Crimson scores 45, Georgetown 0

With a seventeenth-straight victory, coach Tim Murphy announces, “The preseason is over.”

by Dick Friedman

Harvard football 2015: the Crimson trounces Brown, 53-27

The Crimson’s first Ivy contest proved “one of those days when we got on a roll.”

by Dick Friedman

Harvard beats Rhode Island, 41-10, in football opener

The Crimson dispatched the gritty but overmatched Rams in its season opener.

by Dick Friedman

Harvard Beats Yale in The Game to finish an undefeated season

A thrilling end to The Game caps a championship season.

by Dick Friedman