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2014 Football

91 Obum Obukwelu

  • Height 6-2
  • Weight 275
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Brockton, Mass.
  • Highschool Boston College High School

Biography

at Harvard:
2014:
Named to the All-Ivy League first team ... Selected to CollegeSportsMadness All-Ivy second team ... Honored on CollegeSportsMadness Preseason All-Ivy League second team ... Named to NFF Hampshire Honor Society ... Finished the year with 38 tackles and 3.0 sacks ... Made seven stops against Holy Cross ... Finished with five tackles at Brown ... Had a stop at Georgetown ... Made three stops vs. Cornell ... Had 0.5 sacks and four tackles vs. Lafayette ... Had 1.0 tackles for a loss, including 0.5 sacks, and finished with five stops overall at Princeton ... Registered 2.0 tackles for a loss, including 1.0 sacks and had four stops overal at Dartmouth ... Made a stop vs. Columbia ... Finished with two tackles at Penn ... Recorded five stops vs. Yale.

2013: Played in all 10 games, finishing with 19 tackles on the year ... Made a stop in season opener at San Diego ... Recorded a tackle against Brown ... Recoverd a fumble and added two tackles at Holy Cross ... Added a stop against Lafayette ... Made a fumble recovery and added five tackles against Princeton ... Led Harvard with eight tackles against Dartmouth ... Recorded a sack for a nine-yard loss at Columbia ... Finished with a tackle at Yale.

2012:
 Had a sack against Cornell ... Had a sack against Bucknell ... Had a sack against Columbia.

Background:
Two-year starter and three-year letterwinner at Boston College High School … Senior captain with 70 tackles, nine sacks, and 18 tackles for loss … All-Scholastic selection of the Boston Globe, Boston Herald and Patriot Ledger … Massachusetts High School Football Coaches’ Association All-State team … First team All-Catholic Conference and was named the lineman of the year ... Originally accepted a full scholarship to the University of Connecticut ... Older brother, Iffi, played football at Harvard from 2007-09 and his other brother, Nnamdi, played for the Crimson from 2009-13.

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Historical Player Information

  • 91

    2011First-Year

    DT
    6'2" 265 lbs
    91
  • 91

    2012Sophomore

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    6'2" 275 lbs
    91
  • 91

    2013Junior

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    6'2" 275 lbs
    91
  • 91

    2014Senior

    DT
    6'2" 275 lbs
    91