Sports & Athletics

Children explore a forest pond with sticks and nets, searching for creatures in the shallow water.

Harvard Squared | May-June 2025

Springtime with Mass Audubon

Springtime with Mass Audubon

by Nell Porter-Brown

Harvard Stadium

Sports & Athletics |

As Coronavirus Spreads, Harvard Cancels Athletics

After Harvard informed college students that they must move out, Harvard Athletics began to make its own cancellations—a reasonable decision, but a brutal blow to athletes, coaches, and staff.

by Jacob Sweet

Alumnus Paul Lee ’46 carries the (replica) Little Red Flag at the 2012 Harvard-Yale game. Steve Goodhue ’51 is beside him; Spencer Ervin ’54 and Jeff Lee ’74 stand behind.

Alumni | March-April 2020

Seeking a Flag-Bearer!

Are you eligible to carry the (replica) Little Red Flag?

Photograph of several players competing for the puck in front of the Harvard goal

John Harvard's Journal | March-April 2020

Puck Stop

The many saves of a six-foot goalie

by Lydialyle Gibson

Matt Gilmore, sitting behind the wheel of a Zamboni

John Harvard's Journal | March-April 2020

“The Perfect Sheet”

Harvard’s Zamboni operators’ quest for the perfect sheet of ice

by Jacob Sweet

Photograph of Harvard athletics director Robert L. Scalise

John Harvard's Journal | January-February 2020

News Briefs

Sexual-misconduct survey results, and the athletics director to retire

by Jonathan Shaw

Photograph: With Yale’s Melvin Rouse II in vain pursuit, Harvard’s Aidan Borguet heads for the goal line.

John Harvard's Journal | January-February 2020

Failure to Finish

Dreadful defeats—and a heartbreaking Game—produced the Crimson’s first losing season of the century.

by Dick Friedman

Photograph of athletic and sports medicine trainer Brant Berkstresser

John Harvard's Journal | January-February 2020

Sports Medicine Man

Brant Berkstresser aims to ensure sound bodies for Harvard’s student athletes.

by Jacob Sweet

Harvard Mount Washington cabin in the snow

Harvard Squared | January-February 2020

Winter Retreat

The Harvard Mountaineering Club’s Mount Washington cabin

by Nell Porter-Brown

Drawing of Harvard and Oregon football players at the Rose Bowl, with the goalposts depicted at two long-stemmed red roses with a bar between them

John Harvard's Journal | January-February 2020

Yesterday’s News

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Sports & Athletics |

Football 2019: Yale 50, Harvard 43

Harvard falls to Yale in The Game 2019. 

by Dick Friedman