Sports & Athletics
Coverage of Crimson sports and athletics—from team achievements to individual standout stories.
What Does the $2.8B NCAA Settlement Mean for Harvard?
Athlete-payment case will change little for Ivy League athletes.
by Max J. Krupnick
William Henry Lewis
Brief life of a football pioneer: 1868-1949
A Perfect 10
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...
by Cleat
One for the Books
De profundis: Whatever else the football team may accomplish this fall, its second-half comeback in the season's Ivy League opener at Brown...
by Cleat
Saturday Afternoon Improv
Though the Harvard football team runs one of the most sophisticated offensive sets in the country, the team also likes to play what they call...
by Craig Lambert
True Grit
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...
by Cleat
Unbelievably Good
What's up with Ryan Fitzpatrick? Might this soft-spoken junior from Arizona be the most talented quarterback to play football for Harvard since...
by Cleat
Superlative Sailing
In June, Harvard's sailing team captured the National Co-ed Championship in Grosse Point, Michigan. It was the first such title since 1974 and...
A Satisfying Season
A wipeout on the slippery Astroturf of the University of Pennsylvania's Franklin Field dished the football team's hopes of gaining a second...
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 Cleat
Football: 9-0
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 Cleat