Harvard Crimson NCAA Football News

Dartmouth sophomore running back Nick Schwieger was named to the All-Ivy First Team by the league's football coaches, it was announced today.

His final season as a Bulldog, and fifth year overall in New Haven, appeared to be over in the fifth week of the season, when Larry Abare suffered a broken right arm in a 7-0 win over Lehigh.

Even though he was in the midst of a breakout senior season over 4,000 miles away, Jon Takamura took the time to keep up with 'Iolani football.

In a season that saw record-breaking offensive numbers and stifling defensive performances, it is only fitting the 2009 Ivy League Football Player of the Year award is shared by players on each side of the ball.

Greg Reid darted 48 yards with a punt return in the closing minutes, setting up Lonnie Pryor's 3-yard run with 32 seconds left that gave Florida State a 29-26 victory over Maryland.

The Harvard-Yale game 2009 looked like another normal edition of "The Game" even as the Harvard-Yale game 2009 looked to be an upset.

Michigan athletic director Bill Martin will not be in his position for next football season.

Collier Winters threw for 211 yards and two touchdowns Saturday as Harvard came back from a 10-point fourth-quarter deficit to beat rival Yale 14-10, the Crimson's eighth win against the Bulldogs in the last nine years.

Francis Parker graduate Gino Gordon rushed for 168 yards in Harvard's win over Yale last year.

A victory over Yale will never be thought of as a consolation prize at Harvard. The Crimson face their historic rivals in the 126th edition of The Game on Saturday, one week after losing to Penn and missing a chance to clinch an Ivy League title outright.

The following is a list of area athletes now playing college or professional football.

Senior Kenny Gunter, who had rushed for 35 yards this season before Saturday, gained 119 yards on 23 carries and scored a touchdown as Princeton defeated Yale 24-17 in Princeton, N.J. The Tigers took a 14-0 first-quarter lead to win for the 50th time in the series, which Yale leads, 72-50-10. Yale, which has lost three of its last four, must defeat ...

Week 10, November 16, 2009 OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK Penn senior quarterback KYLE OLSON had a stellar day in a driving rainstorm in the Quakers' 17-7 win over Harvard to win a share of their first Ivy title in six seasons.

As Pennsylvania responded to the final whistle by sliding across the slick turf to midfield on Saturday, it knew it had done two things a Quaker football team hadn't accomplished since 2003 - beat Harvard in its stadium and bring home an Ivy League title.

Collier Winters, the first-year starting quarterback, is completing 57 percent of his passes.

For the first time this season, Michael Hirsch played Friday night like he would at his new college position.

The Archbishop Wood graduate is the leading receiver for the two-time champs, who can clinch a third straight crown by beating Penn on Saturday.

As The Crimson indicated in Friday's Around the Ivies column, Harvard football couldn't rest on its laurels Saturday against Columbia.

If there has been a theme in the Ivy League this year, it has been that perseverance triumphs over talent.

For the third-straight week, Harvard football came up against an easily-beatable Ivy opponent.