Articles by Department: Sports

Clifton Dawson has become a standout running back because of what he has done, but he has also excelled at not doing something: fumbling the…

Head football coach Tim Murphy suspended team captain Matthew C. Thomas ’06 (’07) indefinitely after the Harvard University Police…

Seventy-eight feet away at the other end of the tennis court, she doesn’t seem prepossessing. The young Aussie stands five feet, two…

Baseball Harvard (21-20-1 overall) finished the Ivy season with the league’s best record, 14-6, winning the tough Red Rolfe division by…

Record it for the history books: the last of 646 football games played on natural grass at Harvard Stadium since 1903 is over and gone—the…

It’s one of the least understood, and most difficult, events in a track and field meet. Yet the essence of the triple jump is simple: jump…

Frank Haggerty ’68, head coach of men’s and women’s cross-country and track and field since 1982 and assistant coach for seven…

Lacrosse The men’s team (4-2, 1-0 Ivy) took down Penn, 13-8, in their Ivy opener and captured a thrilling triple-overtime 8-7 win over…

The Harvard men’s and women’s fencing teams combined to win the NCAA national championship, the first in program history, in Houston…

Rarely will you hear a former Olympic and National Hockey League player use the word “fungible” twice within a few minutes, but C.J…

Last February, the powerhouse Harvard women’s swimming and diving squad rolled into Princeton for the three-day Ivy championship meet…

Basketball The women’s team (7-11, 3-2 Ivy) had a bumpy start against non-Ivy opponents, but took out Yale, Columbia, and Cornell, all by…

From the dawn of the twenty-first century until last fall, the football squads of Pennsylvania and Harvard ruled the Ivy League roost. Harvard…

Basketball With a 71-50 dismembering of New Hampshire, the men (5-0) became only the third Crimson squad in the last 47 years to go undefeated…

For pure, sustained excitement in an Ivy League football contest, it would be hard to beat this season’s Harvard-Brown game — or last…