Athletics

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

Harvard football player #15 smiles and waves while holding the football

Crimson Football: Harvard 14, Brown 10

Xaden Benson’s “helmet trick” was the decisive factor in the Ivy opener.

by Dick Friedman

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.

Who next will carry the (replica) Little Red Flag?

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

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

Lindsay Reed, Harvard women’s ice-hockey goalie

The many saves of a six-foot goalie

by Lydialyle Gibson

Matt Gilmore, sitting behind the wheel of a Zamboni

A quest for perfect ice

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

by Jacob Sweet

Harvard Mount Washington cabin in the snow

The Harvard Cabin on Mount Washington

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

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Photograph of Harvard athletics director Robert L. Scalise

Sexual-misconduct survey results, athletics director to retire

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.

Harvard football season wrap-up

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

Brant Berkstresser and sports medicine at Harvard

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

by Jacob Sweet

Football 2019: Yale 50, Harvard 43

Harvard falls to Yale in The Game 2019. 

by Dick Friedman

Penn's kicker, Jake Haggard, punts the football.

Football 2019: Penn 24, Harvard 20

Another loss for the hapless Crimson

by Dick Friedman