The Harvard Crimson football program represents

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at the

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(formerly Division I-AA). Harvard's football program is one of the oldest in the world, having begun competing in the sport in 1873. The Crimson has a legacy that includes 13

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and 20

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inductees, including the first African-American college football player

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, Huntington "Tack" Hardwick, Barry Wood,

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, and

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. Harvard is the eighth winningest team in NCAA Division I football history. The Crimson play their home games at

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in Boston, Massachusetts.

History

Early history

Though rugby style "carrying game" with use of hands permitted (as opposed to "kicking games" where hands were not permitted) between Freshmen and Sophomores were played in 1858 the rugby team was not founded until December 6, 1872, by former members of the

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by Roger Allaway at sover.net (archived)Historical Sketch of the Oneida Football Club of Boston: 1862-1865''
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By Bob Holmes on ''The Boston Globe'', 21 Nov 2012 Oneida had developed the "Boston Rules", an early code of

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that was also used by the recently established Harvard club.No Christian End! The Beginnings of Football in America
By PFRA Research (Originally Published in The Journey to Camp: The Origins of American Football to 1889 (PFRA Books) Harvard team is the oldest Rugby team in the United States. Old "Football Fightum" had been resurrected at Harvard in 1872, when Harvard resumed playing football. Harvard, however, had adopted a version of football which allowed carrying, albeit only when the player carrying the ball was being pursued. As a result of this, Harvard refused to attend the rules conference organized by the other schools and continued to play under its own code. In 1873 when the Harvard team received an invitation from the McGill University football club. The McGill team was then in a similar situation as Harvard, as they sought some team with which to play rugby football and no other club wanted to play that game. Harvard boys agreed to a rugby match with McGill under the condition the Canadians played the Boston Game. As McGill accepted, a two-game series was scheduled for May 1874 in Boston. The team captains sent letters detailing their respective game's rules and it was agreed that the first game would be played under Boston rules and the second under rugby rules. Inasmuch as rugby football had been transplanted to Canada from England, the McGill team played under a set of rules which allowed a player to pick up the ball and run with it whenever he wished. Another rule, unique to McGill, was to count tries (the act of grounding the football past the opposing team's goal line; it is important to note that there was no end zone during this time), as well as goals, in the scoring. In the Rugby rules of the time, a touchdown only provided the chance to kick a free goal from the field. If the kick was missed, the touchdown did not count. The first game (attended by nearly 500 spectators, mostly students) showed the kicking of a round ball as the most prominent feature of the "Boston Game". The Canadians were easily defeated by a Harvard squad familiarised with the Boston rules in contrast to the lack of experience of McGill players.They Picked Up The Ball
BY PETER CARFAGNA at Harvard Rugby (archived, 12 Jun 2013) During the second game under the rugby rules, the Harvard players easily adapted to the less restrictive rules of the game, such as the unlimited running and passing the ball or the more aggressive and constant tackling. Within a few years, Harvard had both adopted McGill's rules and persuaded other U.S. university teams to do the same. On June 4, 1875, Harvard played another rugby match v

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(archived, 21 Ago 2010) and then Yale on November 13. That game caused Yale dropped the association football in favour of rugby. In the forty-year period from 1889 to 1928, Harvard had more than 80 first-team All-American selections. Under head coach

, Harvard had three consecutive undefeated seasons from 1912 to 1914, including two

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s in 1912 and 1913. McGill v harvard football game 1874

The McGill team traveled to

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to meet Harvard. On May 14, 1874,

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, played under Harvard's rules, was won by Harvard with a score of 3–0. The next day, the two teams played under "McGill" rugby rules to a scoreless tie. The games featured a round ball instead of a rugby-style oblong ball. This series of games represents an important milestone in the development of the modern game of American football. In October 1874, the Harvard team once again traveled to Montreal to play McGill in rugby, where they won by three tries. Harvard later brought the Harvard/McGill rules to a game against another American college. On June 4, 1875, Harvard played

under rules that included each side fielding 11 men, the ball was advanced by kicking or carrying it, and tackles of the ball carrier stopped play. This is likely the first game between two American colleges in this early era that most resembled the modern game of American football. Ralph Horween 2

The Harvard Crimson was one of the dominant forces in the early days of intercollegiate football, winning 9 college football national championships between 1890 and 1919. In both 1919 and 1920, headed by All-American brothers Arnold Horween and

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(who also attended

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), Harvard was undefeated (9–0–1, as they outscored their competition 229–19, and 8–0–1, respectively). The team won the 1920 Rose Bowl against the

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, 7–6. It was the only bowl appearance in Harvard history.

NCAA Division I subdivision split

The

decided to split Division I into two subdivisions in 1978, then called I-A for larger schools, and I-AA for the smaller ones. The NCAA had devised the split, in part, with the Ivy League in mind, but the conference did not move down for four seasons despite the fact that there were many indications that the ancient eight were on the wrong side of an increasing disparity between the big and small schools. In 1982, the NCAA created a rule that stated a program's average attendance must be at least 15,000 to qualify for I-A membership. This forced the conference's hand, as only some of the member schools met the attendance qualification. Choosing to stay together rather than stand their ground separately in the increasingly competitive I-A subdivision, the Ivy League, along with several other conferences and independent programs moved down into I-AA starting with the 1982 season (a number of these teams have since returned to I-A/FBS).

Recent history

The Harvard football team takes the field

Since the formation of the Ivy League in 1956, Harvard has won outright or shared 17 Ivy League championships (8 outright; 9 shared), 1961 (6–3), 1966 (8–1), 1968 (8–0–1), 1974 (7–2), 1975 (7–2), 1982 (7–3), 1983 (6–2–2), 1987 (8–2), 1997 (9–1), 2001 (9–0), 2004 (10–0), 2007 (8–2), 2008 (9–1), 2011 (9–1), 2013 (9–1), 2014 (10–0) and 2015 (9–1). The Crimson are behind Penn and Dartmouth's 18 Ivy League Football Championships. In summer 2020, the Ivy League announced that the fall season would be postponed or even cancelled because of the

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. Play did not resume until September 2021, after a nearly two-year hiatus, with a 44-9 victory over Georgetown.

Championships

National championships

Harvard has won 12 national championships (1874, 1875, 1890, 1898, 1899, 1901, 1908, 1910, 1912, 1913, 1919, 1920) from NCAA-designated major selectors. Harvard claims seven of these college football national championships. Bold indicates claimed championship

Conference championships

Harvard has won 17 conference championships, all of which occurring during their tenure in the

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, which they joined in 1956, with eight of them being outright and nine being shared. They are second in total Ivy League football titles, behind Dartmouth and Penn. † Co-championship

Head coaches

In over a century of play, Harvard has had numerous head coaches, with varying success.

Rivalries

Yale

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in college football history, after the Lehigh–Lafayette Rivalry (1884) and the

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–Yale game (1873). ''

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On Campus'' rated the Harvard–Yale rivalry the sixth-best in college athletics in 2003.

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played football for Harvard and caught a touchdown pass in the 1955 Harvard/Yale game. In 2006, Yale ended a five-game losing streak against Harvard, winning 34–13. The star of the game was freshman QB Derrick Szu-tu. Despite never playing high school football, the frosh went 27-for-35 for 359 yards and six passing touchdowns (along with 6 interceptions and 4 lost fumbles). That Harvard winning streak was third longest in the history of the series, after Yale's 1902–1907 six-game winning streak and Yale's 1880–1889 eight-game winning streak. Harvard has since beaten Yale in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015. The Game is significant for historical reasons as the rules of The Game soon were adopted by other schools. Football's rules, conventions, and equipment, as well as elements of "atmosphere" such as the

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and

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, include many elements pioneered or nurtured at Harvard and Yale.

Dartmouth

The series with Dartmouth dates to 1882.

Penn

The series with Penn dates to 1881.

Princeton

The series with

dates to 1877.

Stadiums

Early stadiums

In its early years, the football team played at several stadiums including

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and Soldier's Field.

Harvard Stadium

is a horseshoe-shaped

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in the

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neighborhood of

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, in the United States. The stadium is an important historic landmark. Built in 1903, it is the nation's oldest stadium. Penn's Franklin Field is the oldest site still in use (1895) but its current stadium was built in 1922. It was also the world's first massive reinforced-concrete structure, and considered at the time of construction to be the 'finest structure of its kind in the world'. The structure was completed in just six months, mainly by the efforts of Harvard students, and for a budget of $200,000. Thus 'the stadium represents the thought, the money, the ideas, the planning, and the manual labor of Harvard men'. As such, it is one of four athletic arenas distinguished as a

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(the

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, Rose Bowl and the

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are the other three). The stadium seats 30,323. Temporary steel stands were added in the stadiums to expand capacity to 57,166 until 1951. Afterward, there were smaller temporary stands until the building of the Murr Center (which is topped by the new scoreboard) in 1998. In 2006, Harvard installed both FieldTurf and lights.

College Football Hall of Fame inductees

As of 2018, 18 Harvard Crimson football players and 3 coaches have been inducted into the

Harvard players in the NFL

Over 30 players from Harvard have gone on to play in the

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All-Americans

Since the first All-American team was selected by

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in 1889, more than 100 Harvard football players have been selected as first-team All-Americans. Consensus All-Americans are noted below with bold typeface. *

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(End), John Cranston ( G), James P. Lee ( HB) *

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Frank Hallowell Frank Walton Hallowell (August 12, 1870 – June 1, 1933) was an All-American football player and coach. He played at the end position for the Harvard Crimson football team of Harvard University, and was twice selected as an All-American, in 1890 ...

(End),

Marshall Newell Marshall "Ma" Newell (April 2, 1871 – December 24, 1897) was an American football player and coach, "beloved by all those who knew him" and nicknamed "Ma" for the guidance he gave younger athletes. After his sudden and early death, Harvard Unive ...

( T), John Cranston ( C), Dudley Dean ( QB),

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( HB) * 1891: Marshall Newell ( T), Everett J. Lake ( HB) *

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: Frank Hallowell (End), Marshall Newell ( T),

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( G),

(center),

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( FB) *

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: Marshall Newell ( T), William H. Lewis ( C), Charley Brewer ( FB) * 1894: Bert Waters ( T), Mackie ( G), Bob Wrenn ( QB) * 1895: Norman Cabot (End), Charley Brewer ( FB) * 1896: Norman Cabot (End),

( T), N. Shaw ( G),

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( HB), Dunlop (Harvard) * 1897: Moulton (End), George W. Bouve ( G),

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( C),

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( FB) *

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(End), Cochran (End), Percy Haughton ( T), Walter Boal ( G), Charles Dudley Daly ( QB), Benjamin Dibblee ( HB), Warren ( HB), Reid ( FB) * 1899: Dave Campbell (End), Donald ( T), Charles Dudley Daly ( QB), Sarwin ( HB) *

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: John Hallowell (End), Dave Campbell (End), Charles Dudley Daly ( QB), Sarwin ( HB) * 1901:

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(End), Dave Campbell (End),

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( T),

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( T), William Lee ( G), Charles A. Barnard ( G), Sargeant ( C), Robert Kernan ( HB),

Thomas Graydon Thomas Hetherington "Blondy" Graydon (March 30, 1881 – October 1949) was an All-American football player. While attending Harvard, he was selected as fullback on the All-American teams of 1901 and 1902. Early years Graydon was the son of Ann ...

( FB) * 1902: Edward Bowditch (End), Thomas Graydon ( FB) * 1903: Edward Bowditch (End), Daniel Knowlton ( T), Andrew Marshall ( G),

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( FB) * 1904: Daniel Hurley ( HB) *

1905 As the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War begins, more than 100,000 die in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos leads to the 1905 Russian Revolution against Nicholas II of Russia (Shostakovich's 11th Symphony i ...

: Karl Brill ( T), Beaton Squires ( T),

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( G), Daniel Hurley ( HB) * 1906: Charles Osborne ( T), Francis Burr ( G), Harry Kersberg ( G), Bartol Parker ( C), Jack Wendell ( FB) * 1907: Patrick Grant ( C), Jack Wendell ( HB) * 1908: Gilbert Goodwin Browne (End),

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( T), Robert McKay ( T), Sam Hoar ( G), Hamilton Corbett ( HB), Charles Nourse ( C), Johnny Cutler ( QB), Ernest Ver Wiebe ( HB), *

1909 Events January–February * January 4 – Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escaped death by fleeing across ice floes. * January 7 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama. * Januar ...

: Hamilton Corbett ( HB), Hamilton Fish III ( T),

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( HB) * 1910: Hamilton Corbett ( HB), L.D. Smith (End), Lewis (End), Robert McKay ( T), Ted Withington ( T), Bob Fisher ( G), Wayland Minot ( G),

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( HB) *

1911 A notable ongoing event was the Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott Expeditions, race for the South Pole. Events January * January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory ...

: Smith (End), Bob Fisher ( G), Percy Wendell ( HB) *

1912 Events January * January 1 – The Republic of China (1912–49), Republic of China is established. * January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens. * January 6 ...

: Sam Felton (End),

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( T),

Stan Pennock Stanley Bagg "Bags" Pennock (June 15, 1892 – November 27, 1916) was an American football player. He was selected as a first-team All-American at the guard position three consecutive years while leading Harvard University to three undefeated sea ...

( G), Gardner ( QB),

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( HB), Percy Wendell ( FB), Huntington "Tack" Hardwick ( FB) *

1913 Events January * January 5 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos (1913), Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not ven ...

: O'Brien (End),

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( T),

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( T), Stan Pennock ( G),

( HB), Charles Brickley ( FB) *

1914 This year saw the beginning of what became known as World War I, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne was Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip. It als ...

: Huntington Hardwick (End), Walter Trumbull ( T), Stan Pennock ( G), Eddie Mahan ( HB),

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( HB) *

1915 Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction". *January 1 ...

: Joseph Gilman ( T), Richard King ( HB), Eddie Mahan ( FB) * 1916: Richard Harte (End), Harrie Dadmun ( G),

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( HB) *

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: Bob Sedgwick ( G), Eddie Casey ( HB) *

1920 Events January * January 1 ** Polish–Soviet War in 1920: The Russian Red Army increases its troops along the Polish border from 4 divisions to 20. ** Kauniainen, completely surrounded by the city of Espoo, secedes from Espoo as its own ma ...

: Bob Sedgwick ( T), Tom Woods ( G), James Tolbert ( G), Arnold Horween ( FB) *

1921 Events January * January 2 ** The Association football club Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, from Belo Horizonte, is founded as the multi-sports club Palestra Italia by Italian expatriates in First Brazilian Republic, Brazil. ** The Spanish lin ...

: C.C. Macomber (End), John Brown ( G), George Owen ( HB) *

1922 Events January * January 7 – Dáil Éireann (Irish Republic), Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64–57 votes. * January 10 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éirean ...

: Charles Hubbard ( G), Charles Buell ( QB), George Owen ( HB) * 1923: Charles Hubbard ( G) *

1929 This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic ...

Ben Ticknor Benjamin Holt Ticknor (January 9, 1909 – September 12, 1979) was an American college football player. He was a prominent center for the Harvard Crimson, known especially for his play on defense. He was captain of the 1930 team. Harvard did not ...

( C) *

1930 Events January * January 15 – The Moon moves into its nearest point to Earth, called perigee, at the same time as its fullest phase of the Lunar Cycle. This is the closest moon distance at in recent history, and the next one will be ...

: Ben Ticknor ( C) *

1931 Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir I ...

: Irad Hardy ( T), Barry Wood ( QB) *

1932 Events January * January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel. * January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident (1932), Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort ...

: Irad Hardy ( T) *1975 (Division I-AA) –

Dan Jiggetts Danny Marcellus Jiggetts (born March 10, 1954) is a retired American football offensive lineman. He was drafted by the Chicago Bears in the 1976 NFL Draft. Early life Jiggetts was born in Brooklyn, but grew up on Long Island when his paren ...

( OT) *1982 (Division I-AA) –

Michael Corbat Michael Louis "Mike" Corbat (born May 2, 1960) is an American banker who served as the chief executive officer of Citigroup from 2012 to 2021. His 2012 welcome from ''The New York Times'' described him as a "Jack-of-All-Trades". Early life and ...

( OG) *2016

Ben Braunecker Ben Braunecker (born February 7, 1994) is a former American football tight end. He played college football at Harvard. He was signed by the Chicago Bears as an undrafted free agent in 2016, and played for the team through 2019. Early life Bra ...

( TE)

Players notable in other fields

Below are any Crimson football players that became notable for reasons other than football. Included is notability, position at Harvard, and any accomplishments while playing. *

Tommy Lee Jones Tommy Lee Jones (born September 15, 1946) is an American actor and film director. He has received four Academy Award nominations, winning Best Supporting Actor for his performance as U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard in the 1993 thriller film '' The ...

, actor, guard (1965–1968), 1st team All-Ivy League 1968 *

Christopher Nowinski Christopher John Nowinski (born September 24, 1978) is an American neuroscientist and author. After extensively researching concussions in American football, Nowinski co-founded the Concussion Legacy Foundation, where he is currently the CEO, ...

, former professional wrestler with

WWE World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., d/b/a as WWE, is an American professional wrestling promotion. A global integrated media and entertainment company, WWE has also branched out into other fields, including film, American football, and vario ...

and current activist on concussions in sports; linebacker and defensive end (1996–1999); 2nd-team All-Ivy League 1999 *

Michael O'Hare Robert Michael O'Hare Jr. (May 6, 1952 – September 28, 2012) was an American actor who performed on stage and television. He was best known for playing the lead role of space station Commander Jeffrey Sinclair in the science fiction tele ...

, actor, defensive tackle (1971–1974)

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