CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard and St. Thomas have agreed to play a home-and-home football series that begins in 2023, the schools announced today. The Crimson and Tommies will play in Cambridge on Sept. 16, 2023, with the return game in St. Paul, Minn., set for Sept. 15, 2029.
 
When the teams clash on the gridiron in '23, it will mark the first meeting between two storied programs that began competing in the 1800s – Harvard in 1874 and St. Thomas in the late 1890s.
 
Entering 2022, the Crimson have seven national titles and 17 Ivy League championships to its credit, while the Tommies were one of the top Division III programs prior to their move to FCS in 2021. Ahead of its transition to the Pioneer Football League, St. Thomas was the national runner-up twice (2012, 2015), made the NCAA DIII Playoffs eight times in 11 seasons and won seven Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) titles in 10 years.
 
Harvard, which is in the middle of spring football practice, is coming off an 8-2 campaign in 2021. The eight wins were the program's most since 2015, and its 5-2 effort within the Ivy was one victory short of forcing a three-way tie atop the league standings. The Crimson, which led the FCS in rushing defense and finished in the top 10 in numerous statistical categories, ended the campaign by receiving votes in both major top-25 polls.
 
St. Thomas, meanwhile, went 7-3 overall and 6-2 in the PFL in 2021, its first season at the FCS level. The Tommies, who have won 31 straight regular-season home games and 39 of its last 40 on-campus contests, finished the year by winning five of its last six outings, including the final two games on their schedule.
 
With the 2022 Harvard football season approaching fast, fans can receive alerts as to when season tickets go on sale and get priority access to the Harvard-Yale game on Nov. 19, by signing up at https://gocrimson.com/2022FootballPriority.