The storied history of Harvard University football can be traced back to
the very roots of the collegiate game in America. Harvard's athletic
contest with McGill University in 1874 marked the inception of the
modern game for the Crimson. The club from Cambridge then went on to
become one of the dominant football programs of the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries, winning seven national championships between
1890 and 1919, culminating with its Rose Bowl victory over Oregon in
January 1920. Since 1956, the team has been a
perennial contender in the Ivy League. Images of Sports: Harvard
Football captures all the drama and excitement of the pioneering
football program's legacy. Included are the exploits of Charlie Brickley
in the 1910s and Barry Wood in the 1930s; the school's first Ivy League
title in 1961 and the 29-29 victory over Yale in the most famous of all
one hundred eighteen riveting match-ups. The captivating images included
in Harvard Football detail these accounts up to the Crimson's 2001 run
to perfection, a 9-0-0 record, marking the first undefeated, untied
season in eighty-eight years.