CAMBRIDGE – The winds of change have swept through Harvard over the last few years, but the program has largely remained the same. Andrew Aurich has been able to continue the historic success Tim Murphy achieved with the Crimson for so many years, and the ring ceremony following the spring game on Saturday was just a small example of it. On the field throughout a blustery morning inside historic Harvard……
CAMBRIDGE – By 7:35, 7:40ish on what was a December-like Saturday morning, Harvard players were trickling out on the field inside the historic stadium. There was a unique energy to this particular spring practice because it was the first one following spring break. Head coach Andrew Aurich was looking for his squad to pick up where it left off before break and for two hours, it looked like the Crimson…
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…