Word: undefeatedness
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What do you call a squad that went undefeated last season, won its league championship, and this season will return arguably the best running back in its conference, one on track to be the best in league’s history?
Harvard, the reigning league champions, returns an All-American tailback, two game-breaking wide receivers and the heart of the nation’s second best defense last season. It also faces both of the other members of the Big Three, Penn and Brown, at home. The Quakers meanwhile must...
And the Saturday before Thanksgiving, there would be a triumphant victory to cap off Harvard’s first 10-0 undefeated season in over a century. In front of a sold-out crowd, the 2004 Crimson football team would claim its spot in history.
The team knew that perfection was the only acceptable outcome. And once you remove losing as an option, it makes your approach to the next 10 games extremely straightforward. Particularly for a senior class that had tasted perfection once before—as members of the 2001 team that went...
With the title secured, all Harvard had to do was come home for one last hurrah—the team’s fourth consecutive win over Yale and a victory lap with the Ivy championship trophy. With the 10 wins, the 2004 Crimson took its place as the seventh...