A dilemma for many athletes is balancing school and their sport. Yale quarterback Patrick Witt ’12 had to face this challenge in a big way—he had to decide whether to play against Harvard this Saturday or to take his interview for the Rhodes Scholarship, which happened to be on the same day. He chose The Game.
This is no decision that could have been made by picking a daisy in a field, plucking the petals off one by one, and saying “play, interview, play, interview…” This was a serious pro-con list situation.
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When the Harvard men’s hockey team hosts the Big Red of Cornell at the Bright Hockey Center tomorrow, it won’t be just another early season contest between two storied Ivy League hockey teams.
Instead, it will be the biannual matchup of the two squads with the most intense rivalry in ECAC hockey.
While the Harvard-Cornell series began long ago—during the 1909-1910 season—it only acquired its status as the Harvard-Yale of hockey in 1973.
On Jan. 6 of that year, a Crimson fan threw a dead chicken at Cornell goalie Dave Elenbaas, most likely making fun of the Big Red’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. In the next game against Harvard later that month, Cornell fans retaliated, chucking dead fish onto the ice. But there's more...
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5. End of Occupy Harvard
Congratulations student protesters, your demonstrations succeeded in aggravating the majority of the Harvard community. Now you can take your tents out of the yard and use them to tailgate the men’s basketball and hockey games at home this weekend.
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A fortnight before the Harvard men’s squash team’s first match, sophomore Ali Farag is already doing the team proud.
On Oct 28th-Oct 30th he represented the Crimson well at the Price-Bullington Invitational in Richmond, Va., taking home first place out of 16 competitors and beating two Ivy League foes in the process.
In the tournament’s first round, Farag dismantled the winner of the Qualifier tournament and then beat Adam Perkimoaki, a junior at the University of Rochester in his second match. In the semi-finals, Farag took down Yale Junior Kenneth Chang, setting up a final match against Ramit Tandon from Columbia. Tandon was the topped ranked junior in India during the 2010-2011 season and is a player Farag is quite familiar with.
“I’ve seen him play since he was a kid because we played in Europe together,” Farag said. “He is getting better.”
Still, Farag was able to overcome his Lion opponent and reclaim the championship for the Crimson. After the three-year reign in Richmond of former Harvard student Colin West, a competitor from Cornell took the prize last year.
“It’s big to win it and bring trophy back to Harvard,” Farag said. “I’m happy to bring it back.”
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Brogan Berry, Harvard women’s basketball co-captain, was recently nominated as one 30 nominee’s nationwide for the exclusive Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award.
An acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School®, the award is looking for the “total student-athlete,” and it hopes to encourage students to use their athletic platform to make a positive impact as community leaders.
“I’ve heard about a couple of past Harvard athletes being nominated, even past teammates and past opponents I’ve played,” Berry said. “Looking back I admired a lot of those athletes for what they do on the court and off the court ... so when I was accepted as a nominee, I was just blown away because they all have been such great inspirations and it’s an honor to be put on the same playing field as them.”
The award targets NCAA Division I seniors who have notable achievements in four areas of excellence: community, classroom, character, and competition.
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