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On April 27, 1898, in the first game played on the field, Harvard defeated Dartmouth 13–7. [2] [3] [4] Prior to a doubleheader against Dartmouth on May 4, 1997, the field was dedicated to Joseph J. O'Donnell, Harvard class of 1967. O'Donnell played baseball and football at Harvard, captaining the baseball team during his senior season.
H. G. Salsinger (1885–1958) received the J. G. Taylor Spink Award honoring a baseball writer. [2] The award was voted at the December 1968 meeting of the BBWAA, and included in the summer 1969 ceremonies.
In July 1969, Campanella was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, [33] the second player of black heritage (actually bi-racial) so honored, after Jackie Robinson. The same year, he received the Bronze Medallion from the City of New York. Campanella was elected to the Mexican Professional Baseball Hall Of Fame in 1971. [34]
Harvard's baseball program has a long history in the school's well-known rivalry with Yale University. Overall, Harvard has a 194–178–1 record against Yale, whom they have played more than any other team. [3] The two schools' first athletic competition was a crew race in 1852– the United States' first intercollegiate athletic competition. [2]
Raymond James Peters (August 27, 1946 – May 4, 2019) was an American professional baseball player and a former Major League pitcher.Peters, a 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m), 210 lb (95 kg) right-hander born in Buffalo, New York, attended Harvard University, where he played college baseball for the Crimson for two seasons (1967–68).
1969 All-Americans included National College Baseball Hall of Fame Inductee Burt Hooten. An All-American team is an honorary sports team composed of the best amateur players of a specific season for each team position—who in turn are given the honorific "All-America" and typically referred to as "All-American athletes ", or simply "All ...
The Harvard Crimson is the nickname of the intercollegiate athletic teams of Harvard College.The school's teams compete in NCAA Division I.As of 2013, there were 42 Division I intercollegiate varsity sports teams for women and men at Harvard, more than at any other NCAA Division I college in the country. [3]
In protest of the Vietnam War and Harvard's connections to it, students occupied University Hall on the night of April 8 to 9, 1969, forcing out Harvard officials and staff. In the early morning hours of April 10 the occupiers were ejected and some 100 to 300 persons arrested; about 50 were injured.