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Family Football Day scores
Every year Harvard invites Cambridge and Allston-Brighton residents to Community Football Days to cheer the Crimson and feast on free fare. These two events are among the many sponsored by the University.
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The boys are back in town
Harvard charts new football season, with high hopes … and a cautious attitude.
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Harvard hosts New England Writers Association luncheons
Harvard will once again serve as the host of the weekly New England Football Writers luncheons, which will be held each Wednesday at 11:45 a.m., from Sept. 8 to Nov. 17.
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Harvard voted league favorite
Harvard was voted as the league favorite in the Ivy League preseason media poll, released today (Aug. 10) as part of the league’s annual football media day.
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Pumping up sports spirits
The road to Harvard wasn’t an easy one for Cheng Ho ’10, who at 13 came to America from Taiwan after losing his father to cancer while his mother struggled with mental illness. And then there was football to learn …
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Harvard Stadium
A history of Harvard Stadium and how it changed the face of American football.
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Harvard racks up postseason honors
The Crimson dominated the postseason awards with four players named to the New England Football Writers’ Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) All-Star Team and 19 members of the team named All-Ivy League.
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The Game
The oldest rivalry in college football dates to 1875, when Harvard and Yale played a bruising game that resembled rugby more than modern football. Back then, fans journeyed by train, horseback, and foot from around New England to view the rough-and-tumble spectacle.
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The Game, 1927
Original footage the 1927 Harvard-Yale football face off inside Harvard University Stadium.
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A comeback for the ages
Crimson quarterback Collier Winters ’11 threw for 211 yards, ran for 51 yards, and threw two touchdowns on Nov. 21 as the Harvard football team came back from a 10-0, fourth-quarter to defeat the Yale Bulldogs,14-10.
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Harvard-Yale clash for 126th time
On Nov. 21, the Harvard football team visits New Haven to face Yale in the 126th playing of The Game.
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Penn damages football’s title hopes
In a classic “win or go home” battle for the Ivy League Championship, Harvard and Penn went head-to-head for the 80th time on Nov. 14. In the end, Penn was not going home, defeating the Crimson by a score of 17-7.
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Crimson prepare for Penn showdown
After the Crimson’s 34-14 victory over Columbia on Nov. 7, only one obstacle still stands in the way of the Harvard football team’s third consecutive Ivy League Championship. That obstacle resides in Philadelphia.
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Football pounds Dartmouth, 42-21
For a second straight season, Harvard’s offensive line and running backs dictated play as the Crimson collected 315 yards via the ground en route to a 42-21 whitewashing of Dartmouth at Harvard Stadium on Saturday (Oct. 31).
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Allston-Brighton has its day
Harvard has hosted its Allston and Brighton neighbors to an early reception and a football game for the past 20 years. It is a bookend to Cambridge Football Day, which was held earlier this month.
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Crimson stay unbeaten in Ivies
Homecoming was all about highs and lows in Harvard’s 37-3 blowout of the Princeton Tigers on Saturday (Oct. 24).
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Fans enjoy Cambridge Football Day
Harvard welcomed many football-loving residents of Cambridge on Saturday (Oct. 17) to its annual Cambridge Football Day.
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Lafayette rolls over Harvard
The Harvard football team fell to Lafayette this past Saturday (Oct. 17) by a score of 35-18. It was the Crimson’s first loss to the Leopards since 1996.
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Gordon, Scales lead Crimson to victory over Cornell
For the second straight week, the Crimson’s rushing attack, which leads the Ivy League, guided the Harvard football team to victory.
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Running away with another victory
Harvard running back Cheng Ho ’10 ran for 132 yards on 21 carries and two touchdowns in the Crimson’s Oct. 3, 28-14 victory over the Lehigh Mountain Hawks.
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After 100+ years, a first: homecoming at Harvard
The nation’s oldest university, which has been handing out homework since 1636 and handing off footballs since 1874, will host its first homecoming this fall, a potential new tradition designed to attract alumni to campus in years that The Game is played at Yale.
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Crimson football edge Brown in home opener
In 2008, the Harvard Crimson football team and the Brown Bears shared the Ivy League championship, but Friday (Sep. 25) night Harvard refused to share.
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Harvard falls short against Holy Cross in opener
Junior quarterback Collier Winters threw for 195 yards and two touchdowns in the Crimson’s 27-20 loss to Holy Cross.
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Poised to make it three
The Crimson lost a great deal of talent in 2008, but they’re still hungry.
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New Crimson Kids Program offers free football and more
Harvard University is kicking off the 2009 football season with a new “Crimson Kids” program.
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Preseason media poll votes Harvard Ivy favorite
Expectations are high for No. 23-ranked Crimson football team, who were named the Ivy championship favorite at the league’s annual media day.
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Athlete, scholar, humanitarian
The jersey, the helmet, the pads, the cleats — at a glance it’s easy for Andrew Berry to blend in with the rest of his teammates. But take a look at the Bel Air, Md., native after he’s left the stadium and you’ll realize that it isn’t just football that makes him special.
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Sports in brief
Women’s golf take second consecutive Ivy crown; Women’s tennis claim Ivy title; Crimson men’s lacrosse down Yale; Two Crimson football players sign with NFL teams
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Sports in brief
Harvard’s All-American cornerback Andrew Berry ’09 was honored as one of 15 finalists for The Draddy Trophy by the National Football Foundation (NFF) on Tuesday (Dec. 9) at the 19th annual NFF Awards Dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York.
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Twice as nice
It took a fourth-quarter, goal-line stand in the last few minutes against Yale in the 125th playing of The Game on Saturday (Nov. 22), but the Crimson eventually got what they wanted: the ball, the win, and a share of the Ivy League Championship with Brown.