No matter how this weekend’s games turn out though, the future picture of Harvard athletics seems a lot rosier than it did a month ago. In addition to the lacrosse and baseball teams’ encouraging early season results, the football team’s future is bright, as Coach Tim Murphy will return almost every skill position player on offense to a team that when healthy was one of the Ivy League’s best a year ago. The basketball team made a lot of progress in the late stages of the year, and sophomore Matt Stehle—who was named Honorable Mention All-Ivy this year—will be joined in the frontcourt by seven-footer Brian Cusworth next season.
Let’s hope that this upcoming spring season will be the beginning of a long summer for Harvard sports.
—Staff writer Robert C. Boutwell can be reached at boutwel@fas.harvard.edu.