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Campus & Community
Crimson look to helmets in fight against concussions
When the Harvard Crimson men’s hockey team takes center ice later this month, it will do so with another line of defense — a new hockey helmet designed by Cascade Sports in collaboration with NHL legend Mark Messier.
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Campus & Community
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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Campus & Community
Field hockey takes down Brown for fourth win of season
There wasn’t enough rain falling from the sky to stop the Harvard field hockey team on Oct. 3 as the Crimson took down the Brown Bears in overtime, by a score of 4-3.
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Campus & Community
Men’s soccer escapes Yale in double overtime
The No. 6 Harvard men’s soccer team traveled to New Haven, Conn., Oct. 3 to defeat the Yale Bulldogs, 1-0, in double overtime.
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Campus & Community
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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Campus & Community
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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Campus & Community
Harms named Ivy Player of the Week
For the second time this season, goalkeeper Austin Harms ’12 of the Harvard men’s soccer team has been named the Ivy League Player of the Week.
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Campus & Community
Women’s soccer sneaks by Penn
The Harvard women’s soccer team started league play with a win on Sept. 26, taking down the Penn Quakers in their Ivy League opener, 3-2.
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Campus & Community
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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Campus & Community
Soccer’s Akpan named National Player of the Week
Senior forward Andre Akpan of the Harvard men’s soccer team was named Top Drawer Soccer National Player of the Week on Monday (Sept. 21).
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Campus & Community
Poised to make it three
The Crimson lost a great deal of talent in 2008, but they’re still hungry.
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Campus & Community
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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Campus & Community
Strong effort by Crimson not enough
Mikaelle Comrie, Taylor Docter, and Anne Carroll Ingersoll each had 14 kills on Sept. 8 against UConn, but the Crimson still fell to the Huskies in five sets by a score of 3-2.
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Campus & Community
A leader inside and outside the lines
Women’s soccer co-captain Lizzy Nichols leaves her impact on and off the field for the Crimson.
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Campus & Community
Wiggling Their Toes at the Shoe Giants
Todd Byers was among more than 20,000 people running the San Francisco Marathon last month. Dressed in shorts and a T-shirt, he might have blended in with the other runners, except for one glaring difference: he was barefoot.
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Campus & Community
Andover’s Rousmaniere teaches soccer in Africa
For Andover’s Adam Rousmaniere, life simply has a different meaning now. “When I got home, everything seemed different,” he said. “It was difficult to readapt. You look at things here and you think, how can you get upset over that? How does that bother you? Readapting to life in the United States was quite an…
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Campus & Community
Akpan named to Hermann Trophy Watch List
For the second consecutive season the National Soccer Coaches Association of America has named Andre Akpan ’10 to the Missouri Athletic Club’s Hermann Trophy Watch List.
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Campus & Community
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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Campus & Community
Harvard Welcomes 20 Incoming Cross Country Runners
Director of track and field and cross country Jason Saretsky announced his incoming freshmen class for cross country Wednesday. The rookie class is made up of 12 men and eight women hailing from six states (California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, and New York) and two countries (Canada and England).
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Campus & Community
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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Campus & Community
Men’s lightweight and heavyweight crew finish first, second at EARC Sprints
The Harvard men’s lightweight and heavyweight crews turned out impressive performances this past Sunday (May 10) at the EARC Sprints on Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Mass.
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Campus & Community
Clayton and Ko receive Player of the Year honors
The Ivy League has recently announced that both Chris Clayton ’09 of the Harvard men’s tennis team and Beier Ko ’09 of the Harvard women’s tennis team have been honored as the 2009 recipients of the Ivy League Player of the Year award.
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Campus & Community
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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Campus & Community
Water polo finish season with 9-8 win
Although the 2009 season proved quite an upward battle for a young Crimson women’s water polo team — composed of nine underclassmen and just five upperclassmen — there’s no better way to finish a season than with a win.
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Campus & Community
Women’s softball inch closer to North Division title
This past weekend, the Harvard women’s softball team, led by Jennifer Francis ’10 and Bailey Vertovez ’09, traveled to Providence, R.I., to take three of four games from the Brown Bears.
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Campus & Community
Women’s heavyweights retain O’Leary Cup
On Saturday (April 18), Radcliffe’s heavyweight crew defeated Dartmouth and Syracuse on Onondaga Lake to hold on to the Elizabeth O’Leary Cup, with wins in the second varsity eight, varsity four B, and varsity eight races. This year’s victory marks the seventh win for the Black and White in the 10-year history of the event.
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Campus & Community
Men’s volleyball fall to Rutgers-Newark, split Hay title
Despite downing the Scarlet Raiders at Malkin Athletic Center in five games a month before, the Crimson were unable to stop the powerful Rutgers-Newark attack (which hit a combined .337) in a three-game sweep of Harvard on Friday (April 17), snapping the Crimson’s five-game winning streak.
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Campus & Community
Crimson undaunted by Crusaders, top Holy Cross, 11-4
Disappointment struck men’s lacrosse after they dropped their midweek tilt against No. 14 Brown on April 15, which may dampen the team’s chance to make their first NCAA tournament appearance since 1996. So, when the No. 17 Crimson came out flat on Saturday (April 18) against a struggling 3-10 Holy Cross team, the Harvard men…
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Arts & Culture
Radcliffe Fellow tells tale of first woman to play professional baseball
In 1991 the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., paid homage to players from the Negro Leagues, an artifact of segregated America that had faded away three decades earlier.
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Campus & Community
Three-run fourth not enough against B.C.
The grass wasn’t greener on the other side of the river — although for a while it sure looked like it was. Vying for their first Baseball Beanpot win in three years, the Harvard men’s baseball team took the field at Fenway Park on Monday (April 13) against the Boston College (B.C.) Eagles in the…