CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - No. 23/-- Harvard welcomes Dartmouth to Harvard Stadium on Saturday for the Crimson's annual Fall Fest and Homecoming game. The 4 p.m. ET contest is set to air live on NESN, NESN+ and ESPN+.

- The Crimson is looking to rebound from a 21-14 road loss at Princeton last week. The setback snapped a five-game winning streak and an eight-game road winning streak, which at the time was the longest streak in the country.

- Despite the loss, Harvard sits at 5-1 overall, marking its best six-game start since 2021, and just the second 5-1 performance since the 2015 squad opened 8-0.

- Saturday's matchup features two of the five teams tied atop the Ivy League standings at 2-1. Along with Harvard and Dartmouth, Princeton, Penn and Cornell each enter the week with identical 2-1 conference marks.

- Tim Murphy, The Thomas Stephenson Family Head Coach for Harvard Football, enters the contest vs. the Big Green looking to set the Ivy League standard for most conference victories. He is currently tied with Carm Cozza (Yale) as both own 135 league wins. 

- The Crimson looks to stay unbeaten at home, having won all four games at Harvard Stadium this season. The season-long performance to date has been completely different from last season when Harvard went 1-4, with four straight losses to close the year.

- Harvard has responded to its last four losses with a win and has not loss two straight games since 2021. Coincidentally, the last time the Crimson lost back-to-back games was in 2021, when it fell at Princeton in five overtimes (Oct. 23, 2021) and then dropped a home game to the Big Green (Oct. 30, 2021).

- Even with the loss to Princeton, Harvard remained in the AFCA FCS Coaches Poll, checking in at No. 23. The Crimson has appeared in the coaches poll six consecutive weeks, which is its longest streak since 2016. The Stats Perform FCS Top 25, however, was not as kind, dropping Harvard out of its rankings. The Crimson is second in the "Others Receiving Votes" category.

- Wide receiver Kaedyn Odermann found the endzone for the first time this season at Princeton, hauling in a 12-yard pass from Charles DePrima to get Harvard on the board. The senior finished with four catches -- matching his season total entering the game -- for a team-high 57 yards.

- Running back Shane McLaughlin returned to the lineup at Princeton and recorded 65 yards on the ground, while tying the score at 14 with his 1-yard TD rush. The junior now has four rushing touchdowns on the season, one back of DePrima for the team lead.

- Wide receiver Scott Woods II has seen action the last three games after missing the first three of the season. The junior tallied four catches for 96 yards and two touchdowns in his first two outings, and continued to be a threat at Princeton with four catches for 29 yards, while adding 41 yards after the catch. He enters this week's action with 80 yards after the catch on his eight receptions this season.

- Senior defensive lineman Thor Griffith shared team-high honors with Garrett Sharp as both had eight tackles at Princeton. Griffith, who was named a Phil Steele Midseason Third-Team All-American, also added 1.5 tackles for loss, giving him a team-best 4.0 TFL. Tight end Tyler Neville and DePrima, meanwhile, joined Griffith on the midseason All-America team, with both landing on the fourth team. One of the top dual-threat players in the country, DePrima earned All-America accolades as an all-purpose player.