Happy Holidays from Harvard Athletics
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard Athletics extends its warmest wishes to its fans and broader community as the holiday season and 2025 approaches. The Fall 2024 semester has brought thrilling victories, Ivy League titles and national championships to Cambridge, with more action to come in the new year.
As the calendar inches toward midway point of the 2020s, the Crimson has won a pair of national titles (men’s cross country individual, rugby team), two Ivy crowns (field hockey, football), and advanced to four national tournaments (men’s cross country, women’s cross country, field hockey, rugby) in the Fall of 2024.
Men’s cross country runner Graham Blanks won his second straight individual NCAA championship, while leading Harvard to the national meet. The women’s cross country team also competed at the NCAA Championships after earning an at-large bid following its fourth-place performance at the NCAA Northeast Regionals.
Rugby, like Blanks, was a back-to-back national champion after winning the NIRA Division I Championship. The Crimson enters 2025 having won the last three national championships in the sport, claiming the 2023 NIRA title, the 2024 CRAA 7s crown and the 2024 NIRA championship.
Field hockey won its second straight Ivy League Tournament championship en route to a quarterfinal berth at the NCAA Championship. Football, meanwhile, earned its second Ivy crown in as many years and finished the regular season ranked No. 25.
The Fall success has permeated to the Winter, with three teams currently sporting undefeated records (No. 1 women’s squash, men’s swimming and diving, women’s swimming and diving), two squads with only one loss (women’s basketball, No. 6 men’s squash), and several other programs putting up solid performances.
As we wait for competition to ramp up and the calendar to flip, please enjoy the story of “How Murry Found His Nose.”
