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2021 Football

65 Chris Smith

  • Height 6-2
  • Weight 293
  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Detroit, Mich.
  • High School Cranbrook Kingswood
  • Position DL
  • Concentration Human Evolutionary Biology
  • House Affiliation Kirkland

Biography

At Harvard:

2021:
First Team All-Ivy League honors... Phil Steele All-Ivy League Second Team... Phil Steele Preseason All-Ivy League Third Team...Played in all 10 games...Recorded a sack for a loss of five yards in win at Georgetown ... Tallied four tackles, one for a loss, along with 0.5 sacks and two forced fumbles in a win over Brown... Recorded two tackles and a quarterback hurry in the win over Holy Cross ... Posted seven total tackles in a win over Cornell...Three tackles including 1.0 sacks for 5 yards and quarterback hurry...Had five tackles at Princeton...Totaled six tackles against Dartmouth...Totaled three tackles against Columbia...Two tackles and a sack against Penn...Had six tackles and a tackle-for-loss in The Game at Yale...On the season, had 40 tackles, 5.0 tackles-for-loss and 3.5 sacks, including three quarterback hurries and a team-high two forced fumbles.

2020: Did not compete due to season cancelation by the Ivy League.

2019: Played in all ten games... Totaled 21 tackles on the season... Had four tackles at San Diego and vs. Brown... Added a half-sack in the win over Brown for a three-yard loss and one tackle-for-loss of four yards... Had one tackle vs. Howard... Recorded a pair of tackles against Cornell including one coming for a four-yard loss... Picked up a tackle against Holy Cross... Recorded first career fumble recovery against Columbia while adding five tackles... Had one tackle against Penn... Had three tackles against Yale.

2018: Saw action in nine games ... Had one tackle against San Diego ... Recorded two stops at Brown ... Collected a tackle against Rhode Island ... Had 0.5 sacks against Holy Cross ... Had a stop against Princeton ... Recorded a tackle against Columbia ... Had two stops at Penn ... Made two tackles against Yale.

Before Harvard
Four-year letterwinner and starter at Cranbrook Kingswood … Senior captain … Two-time defensive player of the year … Named football MVP as a senior … Four-time All-Catholic Football, two-time all-state football team selection … Three-year letterwinner and starter, senior captain for basketball ...Dean’s List member for four years … Member of the African American Awareness club …Performed community service at Focus Hope and Spirit of Detroit … Cousin, Jon, played football at Kent State.

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Historical Player Information

  • 65

    2018First-Year

    DL
    6'2" 260 lbs
    65
  • 65

    2019Sophomore

    DL
    6'2" 260 lbs
    65
  • 65

    2020Junior

    DL
    6'2" 260 lbs
    65
  • 65

    2021Junior

    DL
    6'2" 293 lbs
    65