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Harvard Crimson softball

College softball team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ65089813 ↗
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The Harvard Crimson softball is the official team which represents Harvard University in NCAA Division I college softball. The team currently participates in the Ivy League. The Crimson are currently led by their head coach Jenny Allard. The team play home games at Soldiers Field which is located on the university's campus.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 52-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Harvard, Crimson and softball is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Harvard Crimson softball” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.