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2013 Football

52 Joshua Boyd

  • Height 6-1
  • Weight 230
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Hyde Park, Mass.
  • Highschool Catholic Memorial

Biography

at Harvard
2013: Named the 140th captain of Harvard football by his teammates ... Selected to College Sports Madness Preseason All-Ivy League second team ... Tabbed to Phil Steele Preseason All-Ivy League first team ... Selected unanimously to the All-Ivy League first team ... Named to College Sports Madness All-Ivy first team ... Honored on FCS All-New England team ... Named to NFF Hampshire Honor Society ... Started all 10 games ... Ranked four on the team with 50 tackles ... Amassed 4.0 tackles for a loss and 2.5 sacks ... Broke up five passes on the year ... Forced a fumble, broke up a pass and finished with five tackles at San Diego ... Had two tackles against Brown ... Broke up a pass, had 0.5 sacks and three tackles at Holy Cross ... Made six stops at Cornell ... Had a sack for an eight-yard loss and finished with seven tackles against Lafayette ... Recorded 10 stops, including 1.0 for a loss, against Princeton ... Made 1.5 tackles for a loss, including a sack, and broke up a pass against Dartmouth ... Broke up a pass and made two tackles at Columbia ... Led Harvard with eight tackles and had an interception against Penn ... Tabbed Ivy Co-Defensive Player of the Week Nov. 18 ... Finished with three tackles at Yale.

2012: Unanimous choice All New-England by the New England Football Writers Association ... Unanimous first team All-Ivy League at linebacker ...  Second team All-Ivy League by CollegeSportsMadness.com ... Preseason second team All-Ivy League byPhil Steel’s College Football Preview ... Third team All-Ivy League by College Sports Madness ... Had 10 tackles against San Diego ... Forced a fumble at Brown ... Ivy League Honor Roll with nine tackles, a sack, forced fumble and a recovery, one breakup and three QB hurries against Cornell ... Had seven tackles and a sack at Dartmouth ... Team-high nine tackles at Penn with eight solo efforts and two tackles for a loss ... Team-high 10 tackles in a win over Yale.

2011: Major H recipient ... All-Ivy League Honorable Mention ... Placed second on the team in tackles with 64 despite only starting five games ... Had 11 tackles (five solo) and a forced fumble in a win against Brown ... Had eight tackles against Lafayette ... Had a team-high eight tackles in a win at Cornell ... Ivy League Honor Roll on Oct. 24 after a career-high 17 tackles and a fumble recovery against Princeton. 

2010: Appeared in all 10 games and finished with 21 total tackles while establishing himself as one of the up-and-coming linebackers in the Ivy ... Had a sack and three tackles in a win at Lafayette in his first career start at linebacker ... Had eight tackles and a sack against Cornell ... Had three solo tackles and an interception return for 45 yards at Dartmouth ... Major H award winner.

2009: Appeared in two games, against Brown and at Yale, collecting a tackle against the Bulldogs in a season shortened by injury ... Minor H recipient.

Background
At Catholic Memorial: Earned 12 letters ... Three-year starter in football, playing wide receiver, tight end, safety and linebacker ... Four-year wrestler and ran track ... Two-time wrestling captain and captain of football team as a senior ... Boston Herald All-Scholastic ... Two-time All-Catholic Conference ... Shriner''s Game invitee ... Led team in tackles during final two years ... Three-time all-conference in wrestling and won 100 career matches ... Two-time Metro Sectional finalist ... Metro Sectional and Division II state champion at 215 weight class as a senior ... Valedictorian of senior class ... President of National Honor Society ... SADD member ... Campus ministry ... Latin Club ... Latin National Honor Society ... Harvard Book Award

Personal: Enjoys music and video games ... Aspires for a career in sport management.

 

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Historical Player Information

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    2009First-Year

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    2010Sophomore

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    2011Junior

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    2012Senior

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    2013Senior

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