Despite losing the Ivy League title in ‘The Game’ for the second straight year, Harvard still made history in 2025, making the FCS playoffs for the first time ever. Both the Crimson and Yale represented the Ivy League in the 24-team postseason, cementing what we’ve known around here for years now: it’s the most competitive league in all of FCS. Harvard should be right back in the hunt for another…
Image courtesy of Harvard Athletics For the second week in a row – which just so happened to be the worst timing possible – Harvard saw things snowball and couldn’t recover. Playing in the first ever FCS playoff game in program history on the road against 12th-seeded Villanova, the Crimson had a tidal wave swarm over them, losing 52-7. Harvard saw the same thing happen against Yale a week ago…
NEW HAVEN – The Game is one of the most historic and well-known college football matchups in the nation, but whoever won the 141st edition on Saturday between Harvard and Yale was going to live on forever. For the first time, the winner of The Game was also going to clinch the Ivy League’s first automatic FCS playoff berth, along with the outright title. In front of over 52,000 fans…
Harvard Athletics For the 141st time, Harvard and Yale will play football on Saturday afternoon down in the Yale Bowl. There’s an argument to be made that it’s the most important meeting in the history of ‘The Game’ rivalry. Or, at least in the last 116 years. Only in 1890 and 1909 were the stakes higher than they are this weekend. A quick Google search shows that in 1890, Harvard…
Image courtesy of Harvard Athletics Kieran Corr drilled a 52-yard field goal as the clock ticked down to zero on Saturday, stunning Penn 45-43. The win kept the No 11 Crimson unbeaten (9-0, 6-0) and locked up a third straight piece of the Ivy League crown. With Yale winning against Princeton, ‘The Game’ at the Yale Bowl next Saturday will be a winner-take-all showdown for the outright championship and more…
By Tom O’Brien NEFJ Correspondent CAMBRIDGE – In what was supposed to be the game of the year in the Ivy League, it was all Harvard in a rout over Dartmouth, 31-10 at home on Saturday to remain unbeaten. Now at 7-0, the 15th-ranked Crimson are 4-0 in the Ivy League with three games left against last-place Columbia, Penn and of course, The Game against Yale that could determine who…
By Tyler Amaral NEFJ Staff We’ve reached the final week of the Massachusetts high school football regular season. Milford is the one team to fall out after suffering its third loss in four games. The Scarlet Hawks have been replaced by Bridgewater-Raynham. There are six ranked-vs.-ranked matchups this week, giving teams one final chance to improve their playoff seeding. Brackets will be finalized for all eight divisions Sunday, November 2….
Oliver Fox NEFJ Correspondent CAMBRIDGE – It was a mid-October day, 60 degrees without a cloud in the sky and the Head of the Charles weekend. So, of course the Harvard Crimson rolled to a 31-7 victory against in-state foe Merrimack. Although, it didn’t come easily early on. The nationally-ranked Crimson (15th) remained unbeaten at 5-0. Merrimack fell to 3-5. After an opening Merrimack drive stalled around mid-field the Crimson…
By Oliver Fox NEFJ Correspondent CAMBRIDGE – Harvard had a lot to play for on Saturday night at its home opener at Harvard Stadium. Long-time coach (30 years) Tim Murphy was in attendance for the dedication of the new playing surface, “Tim Murphy Field,” and Harvard was looking to avenge the upset loss they suffered last year to Ivy League rival Brown. They got that revenge and then some, demolishing…
CAMBRIDGE – The preseason Ivy League favorites are officially back. Harvard opened up camp on Saturday morning inside historic Harvard Stadium and there was a clear buzz around the team. Here’s what stood out during the two-hour session: Attention to detail – From the time stretching started to the final period of walkthrough, everything was covered by second-year head coach Andrew Aurich and his staff. Aurich stuck around the defensive…