Athletics

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

Football players in white and maroon uniforms celebrating a play on the field.

Harvard Football: Yale 45, Harvard 28

A wild weekend: a debacle in The Game, then a berth in the playoffs.

by Dick Friedman

Holy Cross player has ball and Harvard players try to tackle with additional Holy Cross players in pursuit

Harvard 38, Holy Cross 28

The Crimson springs a major upset.

by Dick Friedman

Harvard Football player 29 runs with football with Brown players running after along with other Harvard players

Football 2023: Harvard 34-Brown 31

The Crimson outlasts the Bears in an Ivy nighttime shootout.

by Dick Friedman

Harvard football player 21 runs with ball towards a touchdown with St. Thomas players pursuing

Harvard 45, University of St. Thomas 13

For Crimson football, another opener (its 149th!), another show

by Dick Friedman

Football field

Harvard Football: 2023 Season Preview

Celebrating the Crimson’s sesquicentennial

by Dick Friedman

Two students pose in Harvard Stadium. One holds a basketball and the other holds a soccer ball.

Striving for the Straus Cup

The students who keep competition friendly

by Max J. Krupnick

Harvard’s Truman Jones (90) and Khalil Dawsey corral Yale running back Joshua Pitsenberger.

Ups and Downs

Kings of the road, the football team struggled at home—and in The Game.

by Dick Friedman

Yale mascot Handsome Dan XIX and a Harvard University Police dog at The Game

Football 2022: Yale 19-Harvard 14

A tough finish to a quirky season

by Dick Friedman

Harvard quarterback Charlie Dean surveying the Penn defense, on his way to one of the best days in Harvard quarterback history.

Football 2022: Harvard 37-Penn 14

Dean passes the Quakers silly—and Eli’s coming!

by Dick Friedman

Football 2022: Columbia 21-Harvard 20

Sloppy play and a wily Lion create a nightmarish loss.

by Dick Friedman

Harvard quarterback Luke Emge in his first start of 2022

Football 2022: Harvard 28-Dartmouth 13

A needed restorative is marred by an injury.

by Dick Friedman