The current year has brought several changes for Anderson. Not only does he have a new room, he's also playing for a new head coach in Tim Murphy.

"I really like him," Anderson says. "One of the things that kind of haunts you in an Ivy League school is, 'Is this for real?' You watch TV on New Year's Day, and you say that that's real football."

"Now [Murphy] comes in and changes things up a little, and you realize that everything we do is what Ohio State, Michigan and Florida State would do," Anderson says. "There's an excitement because you're a big-time college football player."

"I've got one more game left, then I'm a civilian, so to speak," he adds. "But I can walk away from football saying I played real college football."

As his days as a "civilian" quickly approach, Anderson looks back on this year's victory over Dartmouth as the highlight of his career. Anderson registered seven tackles in the upset win.

"When we were up 35-12 with four or five minutes left, I almost started crying on the bench because knew we were going to win," he says. "[Dartmouth] is a good program and we're just beating the snot out of them. We had never beaten them [in my days here]."

"You just work so hard for some thing, and then you finally get it," he adds.

So while Harvard and Yale are gearing up for Saturday's showdown the 21-year-old Anderson is preparing for life after football.

"Coming into college, I was an individual," he says. "But now I think with pride that if people ask me who I am, I'm going to say I'm a Harvard football player."

"You wear that football jacket around, and you know you're part of a good group of guys," he continues. "I think that's what I'm going to miss the most."