CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard Football enjoyed another Ivy League championship season in 2024, earning its second straight conference title and its first under first-year Thomas Stephenson Family Head Coach for Harvard Football Andrew Aurich.
 
The Crimson opened the campaign with a convincing win over Stetson before suffering a setback at Brown in Week 2. Harvard, however, answered with 28-23 victory over No. 16/21 New Hampshire, which was the first of a seven-game winning streak, three of which came against Ivy teams that occupied first place at game time (38-20 at Cornell, 31-27 at No. 22/22 Dartmouth, 26-6 vs. Columbia).
 
The seventh victory of the winning streak came at Penn and required theatrics in becoming the first conference team to grab at least a share of the Ivy title. Starting quarterback Jaden Craig went down with a first-quarter injury and Harvard faced a 21-7 deficit early in the third quarter. Charles DePrima, however, utilized his arm (169 yards, 1 TD) and his legs (122 yards, 1 TD) to rally the Crimson, setting up a game-winning 21-yard field-goal attempt that first-year kicker Dylan Fingersh put through the uprights to give the visitors a 31-28 win.
 
A sold-out crowd of 27,105 fans watched the 140^th playing of The Game at Harvard Stadium. The Crimson was within eight points of Yale with just over nine minutes to play, but was not able to complete the comeback as it finished the campaign with an 8-2 mark (5-2 Ivy).
 
Following its 19^th Ivy League championship, Harvard earned a conference-best 17 all-league selections, including six first-teamers in Cooper Barkate (WR), Ty Bartrum (DB), Mike Entwistle (OL), Mitchell Gonser (LB), Jacob Psyk (DL) and Scott Woods II (RS). The aforementioned Craig and DePrima were second-team picks at quarterback and athlete, respectively.
 
Barkate and Bartrum, meanwhile, were later named finalists for the Asa S. Bushnell Cup, which honors the Ivy League Offensive and Defensive Players of the Year. Harvard was the only team to have more than one representative at the ceremony inside the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center in New York City. The Crimson was ultimately on the short end of the Ivy coaches' vote, but Barkate went on to earn All-America accolades from five different outlets and Bartrum was elected the 151^st team captain of Harvard Football, which finished the season ranked No. 25 in the Stats Perform FCS Top 25 Poll.
 
As the Crimson looks ahead to 2025, it will do so with a talented roster returning to Cambridge and its focus on defending its Ivy title for a third straight year and securing a berth in the FCS Playoffs for the first time in the storied history of the Ivy League.