This year, the historic game of croquet was restored to Harvard’s athletic fields, and the young team has already catapulted to success on a national scale. The recently re-founded Harvard croquet team competed in the United States Croquet Association Collegiate National Championships this past weekend in Haverford, Penn., placing fifth in the country.
While croquet is nothing new at Harvard, the squad has only sporadically existed in the last several decades, a shadow of its former glory. But according to sophomore captain Eric Brewster, Harvard is back in the game. And it's back to stay.
“We were the nation’s finest in the 80s,” Brewster explained. “We had a very strong team.” And with this recent resurrection the team is “hoping that Harvard is entering a croquet renaissance.”
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Harvard senior left tackle Kevin Murphy hasn’t graduated yet, but he’s already headed back home.
The San Clemente, Calif. native signed a free agent contract with the San Francisco 49ers Saturday night after not being selected in this weekend’s NFL draft.
“It’s the perfect place for me, the perfect opportunity,” Murphy said. “I’m so blessed to represent my family and my teammates and my friends in a place like that. Right now I’m just living off the high, just being excited about it and celebrating with my family.”
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With Jeremy Lin out for the first round of the playoffs, the New York Knicks will have to rely on point guard Baron Davis if they hope to best the heavily favored Miami Heat.
As Thursday night’s games approached, the New York Knicks’ destiny was in their own hands. Win against the Charlotte Bobcats, a team regarded as the worst ballclub in NBA history, and Jeremy Lin ’10 and Co. clinch the seventh playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. Lose and be at the mercy of the Philadelphia Sixers, with whom they were tied.
Fortunately for New York, Charlotte played like, well, Charlotte, and Lin’s team was able to coast by with a 104-84 victory. The win insured that it will play the Miami Heat in the first round of the postseason.
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Quarterback Collier Winters, pictured above after leading Harvard to a resounding win in his final collegiate game, now has his sights set on playing football professionally. Winters hopes to play in either the NFL or the CFL.
While most Harvard students are preoccupied with acing a final project or exam, a select group of Crimson football players have their sights set on a different goal, far from the confines of Cambridge and Harvard Stadium: Playing in the NFL.
In light of the NFL Draft, which runs from April 26-28, we discussed the latest draft news from defensive tackle Josue Ortiz ’11 and senior left tackle Kevin Murphy earlier this week. Now, we examine the prospects of the quarterback who led Harvard to three straight wins over Yale: Quarterback Collier Winters ’11.
Winters had a sterling 2011 campaign. In six contests, the senior went 5-1, threw 13 touchdowns against just 4 interceptions while tallying 1594 yards through the air.
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Joseph Pak on April 27, 2012 at 10:12PM
Harvard men’s basketball center Keith Wright, a former Ivy League Player of the Year and two-time All-Ivy League player has spent much of his Harvard career in the gymnasium working on his array of post moves and more recently, preparing himself to pursue a career in professional basketball. When he’s not in the gym, Wright, a Psychology concentrator in Leverett House, is an avid student looking to become a future couples therapist. We caught up with Wright to ask him a few questions about his aspirations to go into relationship counseling.
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