Harvard football took down visiting Brown, 24-7 on a soggy Friday evening.

After a loss last week against Holy Cross, Harvard football looks to even its record under the lights.

The Crimson (0-1) plays its home opener tonight at 7 p.m. against Brown (1-0) in the first Ivy contest for both teams. But Harvard may have to do it without senior quarterback Collier Winters.

Winters appeared to suffer a minor hamstring injury towards the end of last week’s game, and whether he plays will be a game-time decision.

Junior Colton Chapple, the team’s second-string quarterback, has been taking snaps in practice all week and would start if Winters does not.

Though Brown won last year’s game in Providence, recent history favors Harvard against the Bears, as the Crimson has won six of the last eight meetings between the two squads.

Harvard will have to maintain consistency throughout the game—something it failed to do last week in its 30-22 loss. Brown came into the season as a dark-horse Ivy League favorite, and the team has gained ground in recent years, splitting second place with Harvard and Yale last season.

But Winters feels confident in the team’s ability to rebound from its recent disappointment.

“The Holy Cross loss was really tough,” Winters said. “I feel like when we came into that game, we were pretty confident we would come out with the victory. But one thing I’ve seen being at Harvard the last four or so years ... is that after a loss, we’ll come back next week and play at a very high level ... Two years ago, we lost to Holy Cross and came back and won this same game against Brown.”

Harvard football’s history of resurgence stretches beyond its rebound in 2009.

Since 2007, the Crimson has not lost two games in a row, and recorded a victory in eight consecutive games after a loss.

“Brown’s a good opponent,” said captain middle linebacker Alex Gedeon. “To win, we’ve got to play to our abilities ... play a physical game and make fewer errors.”

Fixing those errors—like allowing a 97-yard interception return for a touchdown or fumbling a punt in last week’s loss—is a critical step coming into tonight’s game. Several breakdowns in field coverage helped the Crusaders take the game away, by scoring 27 straight points last weekend.

“We need to limit the mistakes we’re killing ourselves with,” said junior running back Treavor Scales. “We gave that game to them ... offensively, ball security is something that’s echoed throughout the entire offensive unit.”

The team understands that Brown is an offensive threat. This year, the Bears started of their season last weekend with a tight opening win over Stony Brook, 21-20.

Brown quarterback Kyle Newhall-Caballero returned from an injury that lasted the better part of the 2010-2011 season, throwing for three touchdowns and 292 total yards to secure a win for the Bears in that contest.