Sports & Athletics


Springtime with Mass Audubon

Springtime with Mass Audubon

by Nell Porter-Brown

Crimson Queens of the Rink

The women’s hockey team ended January with a perfect 14-0 record in the ECAC, and a 17-1-0 record overall, earning them the top ranking in...

by Craig Lambert

Harvard's Contribution to Baseball

Harvard may be at the forefront of innovation in nanotechnology and stem cells, but the University can lay claim to a more basic invention as well...

Storybook Ending

Rebounding from a rocky start, the football team defeated its first six Ivy League opponents and scripted a stunning finale by routing a...

by Cleat

Gyroball Historian

In the fall, the Tokyo publisher Asahi Shinsho released a new title in Japanese, loosely translated as The Unknown Story of Matsuzaka’s...

Ski Team, Waxing

In the north country of New Hampshire, skiers from Dartmouth, the current NCAA champions, reign supreme, while the Green Mountains are home to...

Who Let the Dogs Out?

The Yale bulldog, muzzled by Harvard for five straight years, broke loose at the Stadium on November 18 and went on a tear. Closing out an Ivy...

by Cleat

Challenges on the Field and Off

Beset by an ugly string of off-season incidents, the football team sought to make amends on the playing field. After pounding Holy Cross, 31-14...

by Cleat

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