Athletics
Coverage of the Harvard sports and athletics—from team achievements to individual standout stories.
A Near-Perfect Football Season Ends in Disappointment
A loss to Villanova derails Harvard in the playoffs.
Storybook Ending
Rebounding from a rocky start, the football team defeated its first six Ivy League opponents and scripted a stunning finale by routing a...
Yale beats Harvard in 2006 game
The Yale bulldog, muzzled by Harvard for five straight years, broke loose at the Stadium on November 18 and went on a tear. Closing out an Ivy...
Challenges on the Field and Off
Beset by an ugly string of off-season incidents, the football team sought to make amends on the playing field. After pounding Holy Cross, 31-14...
Harvard football completes undefeated season in 2004
Routing Penn and Yale in the pivotal games of a history-making season, the football team finished 10-0, won the Ivy League championship, and...
Harvard football 2003 midseason wrap
De profundis: Whatever else the football team may accomplish this fall, its second-half comeback in the season's Ivy League opener at Brown...
A review of the 2003 Harvard's football 2003 season
Ryan Fitzpatrick '05, the football team's multi-talented quarterback, is a gamer. After breaking a bone in his throwing hand in the season's...
Ryan Fitzpatrick: The best Harvard quarterback since Barry Wood '32?
What's up with Ryan Fitzpatrick? Might this soft-spoken junior from Arizona be the most talented quarterback to play football for Harvard since...
Taut and Suspenseful
In a shootout between the defending champions of the Ivy and Patriot Leagues, the football team fell to Lehigh, 36-35, in the final minute of...
Harvard football undefeated in 2001
After a pair of 5-5 seasons sullied by inopportune turnovers and second-half meltdowns, head football coach Tim Murphy took a new pedagogical...
Loaded for Bear
An impressive win at the outset of what will be a slightly truncated season gave grounds for optimism about the football team's Ivy League...