At the end of the year, the Crimson had recorded a school record 374 points, while Ortiz won Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year and 16 others made All-Ivy teams.

Excelling in one sport your freshman year is hard enough. In two? That’s almost unheard of.

Coming into the 2011 campaign, it was all but assumed that Winters, the returning starter, would lead the Crimson attack, but a week-one matchup against Holy Cross forced the Harvard football team to change its plans.

Murphy cemented his place as one of, if not the greatest coach in Crimson football history.

The Harvard football team generally sets two goals at the start of each season: to go a perfect 10-0 and to win an Ivy championship.

Few could have predicted Chapple’s success.

In a year during which Ortiz was a one-man highlight reel, his proposal at the Yale Bowl, one of the lasting memories from the season, capped off a dominant campaign on the defensive line.

As the league seeks out higher levels of national exposure, it appears caught between two masters: the pressure to excel as a sports conference and the pull of tradition to maintain the status quo.

If you’ve ever missed the chance to see your favorite Harvard squad play because you missed out on those few ...

Yale junior Brendan D. Ross, the driver of the U-Haul truck that killed a woman and injured two others at the Harvard-Yale football game this fall, was arrested on Friday.