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

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...

by Bethell, John T

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...

by Bethell, John T

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...

by Bethell, John T

Outpointed

Football dreams intercepted

by Bethell, John T

Burned at the Buzzer

The big hit of the New York theater season in 1894 was William Gillette's Too Much Johnson. It was a farce, but when it was revived at Yale Bowl...

by Bethell, John T