06-02-2026, 09:56 AM
I don't think all of Harvard's 42 sports are NCAA-sanctioned; the same applies to Stanford.
I'm thinking of squash (the sport), rugby, men's rowing, etc.
Also, Harvard football is FCS/D2. Not sure about other sports.
I think to make it an apples-to-apples comparison, we would need to restrict the lists to D1--in some sports there's only one division, so that makes it easy--and NCAA-sanctioned.
I certainly don't have time to generate such a list and don't trust AI, but I'm going to stand by my claim that Stanford would be at or very near the top of the list as I've specified.
I'm thinking of squash (the sport), rugby, men's rowing, etc.
Also, Harvard football is FCS/D2. Not sure about other sports.
I think to make it an apples-to-apples comparison, we would need to restrict the lists to D1--in some sports there's only one division, so that makes it easy--and NCAA-sanctioned.
I certainly don't have time to generate such a list and don't trust AI, but I'm going to stand by my claim that Stanford would be at or very near the top of the list as I've specified.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)