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

Football 2018: Harvard 45, Yale 27

On the fiftieth anniversary of That Game, Harvard really does beat Yale. 

by Dick Friedman

From the Archives: 1968, When “Harvard Beats Yale”

The immediate post-Game coverage, and an update on that famous headline

Football 2018: Harvard 29, Penn 7

A bludgeoning victory in the season’s final road game

by Dick Friedman

Football 2018: Harvard 52, Columbia 18

A Senior Day, and game, to celebrate

by Dick Friedman

Football 2018: Dartmouth 24, Harvard 17

For the third time against a tough foe, too little, too late.

by Dick Friedman

Football 2018: Harvard 21, Princeton 29

Harvard gives the Tigers a good game. 

by Dick Friedman

A Hard Road

The early season holds no easy wins for Harvard football.

by Dick Friedman

Striking Distance

Ranked first in the world, fencer Eli Dersh­witz looks to the 2020 Olympics.

by Lydialyle Gibson

The Players

How the Crimson squad from the immortal ’68 Game revealed a transforming Harvard

by George Howe Colt

Please, Run!

Social entrepreneur Jill Vialet ’86 on “positive chaos” and fixing recess

by Nell Porter-Brown