Guest commentary: The day Harvard won, 29-29 Nov 22, 2008
We were standing outside of Billings and Stover after paying homage before their shelf of Harvard footballs from games played in an age that had passed ... I ve been attending Harvard football games since that late 1940s, when often winning only a game or two during a season seemed the norm. (Cambridge Chronicle, MA)
'Harvard Beats Yale 29-29' is no ordinary game story Nov 19, 2008
Tommy Lee Jones is among the Harvard football team members interviewed in ''Harvard Beats Yale 29-29. By Mark Feeney Globe Staff / November 19, 2008. (Boston Globe)
Ex-announcer Gamere faces charges of child pornography Oct 24, 2008
Gamere held numerous other broadcasting jobs, including doing the play-by-play for Harvard football. He had made his television play-by-play debut in 1970 for the New York Yankees on WPIX but was let go after one season and replaced by Bill White. (Boston Globe)
Lafayette vs. Harvard Football Media Luncheon Oct 3, 2008
Official Athletic Site of the Lafayette College Leopards. Looking for its fourth straight win, Lafayette will host Harvard on Saturday. (Goleopards.com)
Northeastern Alumni: Alum honored with media award Oct 3, 2008
He was also behind the mic for Providence College hockey and women's basketball while doing work for their men's team, Harvard football and Northeastern football. Logan cut his teeth starting in 1991 at the Northeastern student radio station WRBB. Calling a football game along with a number of hockey games for the campus station, Logan worked with Don Orsillo, now a broadcaster for the Red Sox. (Northeastern News, MA)
PC Hockey Broadcaster Mike Logan Receives Joe Concannon Media Award Oct 3, 2008
Logan also spent two years broadcasting Northeastern men1s basketball (1998-2000), and has done some part-time announcing for Northeastern football, along with Harvard football and basketball. Since 2001, Logan operatedMWLsports, which produces and broadcasts high school football games in Southeastern Massachusetts. (Friars.com)
Former NFL players donate brains for concussion study Sep 25, 2008
Our goal is for people to start taking concussions seriously, said Chris Nowinski, a former pro wrestler and Harvard football player. That means getting off the field when they receive them and finding ways to prevent them. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
LEHANE: 'Mystic River' author takes a detour with 'Given Day' Sep 4, 2008
"The Brahmins (Boston's ruling class) were so worried about the natives that they armed the Harvard football team. 'Good lord,' I said, 'That's too good not to use.' ". And in the midst of the riots, the National Guard led a cavalry charge up Beacon Hill: "It was like something out of a John Ford western, but this was Boston in 1919. I could hear the hooves on the cobblestones. "That was it," he says. "There was no turning back. (USA Today -- Life)
Swampscott ace is headed to BC Aug 31, 2008
Ivy rivalry set aside for Sox first pitch Matt Curtis (inset), the former Lynn English standout and current Harvard football captain, will represent his half of the Ivy League's deepest rivalry when the Red Sox invite Curtis and Yale senior captain and former Acton-Boxborough stalwart Bobby Abare to throw out the first pitch Wednesday when the Sox play the Orioles. This is the 125th anniversary of the Ivy's annual gridiron epic, and this year Harvard and Yale also share the top spot in preseason... (Boston Globe -- Sports)
Showing resolve to fight, a family takes to the sea May 22, 2008
"He's a hell of a competitor, and I know it will stand him in good stead," said Driscoll, who first met Kennedy in the early 1950s, when he was a line coach on the Harvard football team and Kennedy was a hard-hitting end. "He's a fighter and a warrior.". (Boston Globe)
What to look for this spring Mar 24, 2008
Trivia answer: Harvard football captain Arthur Cumnock is widely recognized for holding the first spring football practice in March of 1889. Log in to daily-chronicle. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
He's a fullback ... and an opera singer Nov 20, 2007
For almost 90 years, the post-game celebration after every Harvard football victory has been the same. After shaking hands with opposing players and coaches, it's a rush to the locker room. (SportsIllustrated.CNN)
Food drive donors to get ‘Game’ tickets Nov 13, 2007
Each donor who brings a frozen turkey or at least four nonperishable food items to the collection site will receive a pair of tickets for the Yale vs. Harvard football game at Yale Bowl Saturday. Collection times are 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., Friday and and 7 to 11 a.m. Saturday. (New Haven Register, CT)
Paul Raymond and AJ Tracey Named CoSIDA District I Academic All-Americans Nov 9, 2007
A strong writer, Tracey also wrote a blog for the New York Times about his experiences prior to the Harvard football game. Both Raymond and Tracey will be back in action for the Bears on Saturday, November 10, against Dartmouth at Brown Stadium. (Brownbears.com)
Harvard football lineman from Needham worked hard to regain form after injury Oct 28, 2007
Red Sox Patriots Celtics Bruins Revolution Colleges High school Others NESN Dirt Dogs Calendar Shop. A long time coming, but fully Crimson now. (Boston Globe -- Sports)
Bruins game gets early start Oct 20, 2007
The network, which was originally scheduled to broadcast the Princeton at Harvard football game live at 12:30 p.m., will air the game on tape delay beginning at 8 p.m., one hour after the Globe's Red Sox pregame show. Copyright 2007 Globe Newspaper Company. (Boston Globe)
Harvard Fullback Plans Opera Career Oct 19, 2007
And while the Harvard football playbook may be complex, opera playbooks come in English, Italian, German and French. "You've got to know them like the back of your hand," says Van Niel, who has taken two years of college Italian. (KIRO TV, WA)
Two buses chartered for Sat. football game Oct 18, 2007
to watch the 100th-ever Princeton vs. Harvard football game Saturday. The charters cost $1,000 per bus, with funds coming from the USG senate pilot fund and a $500 donation from the Princeton Football Association, an organization dedicated to the preservation and improvement of football at Princeton. (The Daily Princetonian, NJ)
Football Media Luncheon: Week Seven Oct 10, 2007
On playing Harvard this Saturday: It's another typical Harvard football team: seven returning starters on a defense that I thought was as good as we saw all year, including UMass. Offensively, other than shooting themselves in the foot some, they've been playing pretty well. (Goleopards.com)
USG aims to improve dining halls Oct 8, 2007
Revitalizing the Butler and Wilson dining halls, procuring buses to next week's Harvard football game and improving residential life were topics of discussion at last night's USG meeting. Sophomore class senator and student-dining services liaison Mike Wang met last week with representatives from Dining Services and from the Butler College Council to address Wilcox' and Wu's dwindling number of patrons. (The Daily Princetonian, NJ)
After 104 years, Harvard to host night game Sep 22, 2007
"Harvard football is something special as it is. But the blood was flowing a little more," defensive lineman Brad Bagdis said after the team's first night practice. "The stadium, it's different. There's just something completely different about playing under the lights.". (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- NCAA Football)
Harvard enters light age Sep 22, 2007
And he's earned distinction as the 134th captain in the storied history of Harvard football. This evening under bright lights, Bagdis and his Crimson teammates will step onto the year-old FieldTurf surface at The Stadium, 104 years young, and play the first night game in Harvard history, squaring off against Brown in their Ivy opener. (Boston Globe -- Sports)
Dr. Z and Brooklyn Decker offer their Week 3 picks. Sep 21, 2007
SI.com - Writers - Tim Layden: Morgan's concussions put him at center of debate - Thursday September 20, 2007 2:11PM. Morgan's concussions put him at center of debate. (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- NFL)
Yom Kippur or Harvard football Aug 19, 2007
Today's Globe Local Politics Opinion Magazine Education NECN Special reports Obituaries. WHILE WE applaud those who wished to see Harvard's opening football game moved from Yom Kippur eve, the fans are missing the point when they complain, as reported, that the university was forcing them to choose between synagogue and football ("," Page A1, Aug. 17). (Boston Globe -- Editorial)
Religious conflict in Harvard football schedule Aug 17, 2007
"September 21, 2007, will be an historic day as plans are in the works for the first-ever Friday night Harvard Football game at Harvard Stadium.". After the announcement, a dozen fans called Harvard to complain. (Boston Globe)
Call to mind Jul 15, 2007
Nowinski has solid credentials because he's also a victim, a former Harvard football player and World Wrestling Entertainment performer who suffered at least a half-dozen concussions that eventually ended his career. "That gives him a lot of legitimacy because he's been there and done it," says Dr. Julian Bailes ," who chairs the Department of Neurosurgery at West Virginia University and is medical director at the Center for the Study of Retired Athletes at the University of North Carolina.... (Boston Globe)
Full Story from Harvard Crimson May 19, 2007
For Harvard football, for example -- whose numbers remain unverified -- The Crimson approximates that the team is 77 ... Harvard football head coach Tim Murphy arrived in Cambridge from the University of Cincinnati in 1994, taking over a program built by longtime coach Joe Restic. (U-Wire.com)
Dick Raphael, 68; captured iconic sports images Feb 21, 2007
"He would shoot Harvard football on Saturday afternoon," said Meralee Whitman, Mr. Raphael's companion of 31 years. "He would go back to his office and make proof sheets, drive over to Harvard and drop them off, then he would drive to my apartment in the North End, and I would make him dinner and make him watch 'The Love Boat.' Then on Sunday morning, he would get up, shower, shave, and leave to go shoot the Patriots.". (Boston Globe)
A long and troubling lineage Feb 11, 2007
A more than able boxer, member of the Harvard football team that beat Oregon in the Rose Bowl , and creator of what investors know as index funds. A man whose first marriage had produced several children, Minturn married Emily, the author's mother and a champion tennis player. (Boston Globe)
Phyllis Ames Cox; potent presence behind Watergate prosecutor Feb 8, 2007
Phyllis Ames graduated from Buckingham School and was at a Harvard football game in 1935 when she met Archibald Cox, who was "wearing a tweed coat and flannel trousers," she recalled in Gormley's biography. "To be honest, he looked a little shabby. Clothes didn't mean that much to him.". (Boston Globe)
Report: Ex-NFL player's suicide linked to brain damage Jan 19, 2007
"The Times cited a study by the Center for the Study of Retired Athletes, based at the University of North Carolina, of 2,500 former NFL players that found that cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's-like symptoms and depression rose in direct proportion to the number of concussions a player had sustained. The same group conducted a 2003 study which found a link between multiple concussions and depression among former pro players with histories of concussions. Then 2005 study was a follow up to the... (ESPN -- Football)
