CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard Football's
Ty Bartrum earned 2025 Associated Press Honorable Mention All-America accolades, it was announced today. The All-America honor is the second in as many days for the senior, who landed on the FCS Football Central All-America squad on Monday.
A defensive back from Pomeroy, Ohio, Bartrum was an All-Ivy League First-Team selection this season and finished second on the team with 83 tackles, while adding 0.5 tackles for loss, one interception, three pass breakups, one quarterback hurry and two forced fumbles. The team captain ended his season by reaching the double-figure tackle total in his final three outings, with 14 apiece vs. Penn and at Yale, and 11 at Villanova.
Bartrum's second postseason All-America honor comes after he was named a finalist for the Buck Buchanan Award (national defensive player of the year), a recipient of the Gridiron Club of Greater Boston's Bulger Lowe Award (defensive player of the year) and to the New England Football Writers Association's All-New England Team.
Bartrum's AP All-America appointment is the 40
th in Harvard program history and marks the second straight season the Crimson has placed an athlete on the AP All-America team. Last season, wide receiver
Cooper Barkate was an honorable mention selection.
Harvard is coming off a year that saw it earn a national ranking for a majority of the campaign, including a top-10 mark the final three weeks of the regular season. The Crimson posted a 9-2 record (6-1 Ivy) and earned an at-large bid to the NCAA FCS Playoffs in the Ivy League's first season of eligibility.