This article has not been written because of outside pressure; it has been written because of the authors' conviction that the current complaints over Harvard football can hurt the wrong people.

In the 2015 season, for example, the average attendance at a Harvard football game was 12,799. The Harvard Stadium, however, seats 30,323. Nor does Harvard’s goal seem to be winning national ...

The first game in the Harvard-Yale series was played at New Haven on November 13, 1875. Since the formation of a football club at Harvard three years before, the two colleges had not been able to ...