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Last winter, in the waning minutes of the Harvard men’s home basketball game against Princeton, a tight contest with several lead changes…

Soccer After a 1-0 loss to Vermont, the men’s side (4-3-1) ran off three wins over Coastal Carolina, Maine, and Fairfield before dropping…

Grinning, the new head coach of women’s soccer, 29-year-old Stephanie Erickson, says she has friends “who would call me a typical…

Crew The heavyweight men won their third consecutive national title at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) regatta in Camden, New…

Few students can simultaneously attend their college graduation and their tenth class reunion. And it’s a rare undergraduate who has a…

The men’s swimming and diving team (8-0) won the Ivy championship and their eighth EISL title in the last 10 years, beating Princeton…

This summer, professional sports will return to campus for the first time since the Boston (now the New England) Patriots played at Harvard…

The Harvard athletic department website, a shrine to the accomplishments of Crimson athletes, makes a peculiar boast regarding ice hockey…

Women’s Ice Hockey The icewomen (11-6-2) revenged an early 3-2 road loss to Yale with an 11-2 blowout at home in January. Four of the team’s six…

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…

Field HockeyThe stickwomen (11-7, 6-1 Ivy) won a share (with Penn) of their first Ivy title since 1991. The Crimson’s 3-1 victory over the…

Size matters, but elevation matters more. Tall, long-legged Kaego Ogbechie ’05 can do almost anything on a volleyball court, in ways that…

De profundis: Whatever else the football team may accomplish this fall, its second-half comeback in the season’s Ivy League opener at Brown…

Though the Harvard football team runs one of the most sophisticated offensive sets in the country, the team also likes to play what they call…

On April 12, 1877, in a baseball game between Harvard students and the Live Oaks (a semipro team from Lynn, Massachusetts), James Alexander…