Sports Briefs
SPORTS BRIEF: Touted Northern Calif. Recruit Commits to the Crimson, Passing up Portland, Seattle, San Diego
Score another recruit for Harvard men’s basketball coach Tommy Amaker and his staff. Earlier last week, 6’8, 215 lb forward James Moore committed to joining the Crimson next fall.
SPORTS BRIEF: Hofstra Announces End Of Football Program Due Budget Cutbacks
Hofstra University announced yesterday that it will be dropping its intercollegiate football program—the second Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) school to eliminate the sport in the last 10 days.
Northeastern Scraps Football Program
Northeastern discontinued its football program today, leaving just Boston College and Harvard as Boston's only two Division I college football teams.
Brief: Hughes Relieved From Top Post After 10 Seasons With Tigers
Princeton football coach Roger Hughes has been relieved of his duties, the university announced yesterday.
SPORTS BRIEF: Harvard Crews Finish Up Fall Season with Foot of the Charles
The Harvard men’s heavyweight and lightweight crews wrapped up the fall season on Saturday in the Foot of the Charles Regatta.
SPORTS BRIEF: Men’s Basketball Team Loses Swiatek, Boehm For Rest of the Season
Sophomore Peter Swiatek and classmate Peter Boehm have left the men’s basketball team for this season.
SPORTS BRIEF: Men's Soccer No. 10 Seed in NCAA Tourney
After winning the Ivy League title—and its accompanying NCAA tournament berth—outright on Sunday with a 1-0 victory over Penn, the Harvard men’s soccer team learned last night that it has earned the 10th seed in the tournament.
SPORTS BRIEF: Crimson to Duel with Boston College in First Round of Tournament
It took a long and arduous journey for the Harvard women’s soccer team to make it into the NCAA tournament, but the squad won’t have to go far to play its first round match. The Crimson will travel to Newton, Mass., Friday evening to take on regional No. 2 seed Boston College—the number seven team in the nation. Scheduled for either 4 p.m. or 7 p.m., the game time has not yet been specified.
Four-Star Recruit Dwight Powell Chooses Stanford Over Harvard
Yet another top-tier basketball recruit has dashed the hopes of the Crimson faithful. Highly-touted prospect Dwight Powell ended his recruitment Saturday, verbally committing to Stanford. The 6’10” center, a Canadian native attending IMG Basketball Academy in Florida, chose to join the Cardinal over Georgia Tech and Harvard.
The Lesser of Two Evils
On Nov. 26, Dartmouth College Athletic Director Joann Harper announced her decision to cut the swimming and diving teams from
