PRINCETON, N.J. – Harvard football senior linebacker Andrew Irwin has been named the Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week, the league announced on Monday afternoon. Irwin is the sixth Crimson student-athlete to earn weekly honors this season.
 
Hailing from Altoona, Pennsylvania, Irwin posted seven tackles, including 3.0 tackles for a loss of 12 yards, 1.0 sacks and two forced fumbles in a 23-7 Senior Day victory over Penn. Irwin was part of a defensive unit that held the Quakers to 267 yards of total offense and to their lowest scoring output of the Ivy League campaign.
 
Irwin, who has 36 tackles on the season to rank fourth on the team, joins Jack McGowan (defensive), Johan Lipel (special teams), Jake Smith (offensive), Jon Sot (special teams) and Kaedyn Odermann (rookie) as Ivy League weekly honorees in 2021.

Later in the day, Irwin earned FCS Stats Perform National Defensive Player of the Week honorable mention accolades.
 
Harvard, which won its seventh game of the season on Saturday, matching its highest total since 2016, returns to the gridiron on Saturday when it faces Yale in the 137^th edition of The Game. Kickoff is scheduled for noon ET, with the contest airing on ESPNU.