Harvard Crimson fencing Cross '09 (Team USA; she won a silver medal in team foil) and Noam Mills '12 (Team Israel; épée), who both competed in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Cross and Mills were the first Harvard University female fencers to qualify for the Olympics. Harvard Crimson fencing The Harvard Crimson fencing team is the intercollegiate fencing team for Harvard University located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The team competes in the Ivy League within the NCAA Division I. The university first fielded a team in 1888. The team is currently coached by Peter Brand. Harvard founded the first collegiate fencing team in the United
Harvard University Band Man (now Grad)...but you can't tell 'em very much." In keeping with that tradition, the main Harvard fight song, "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard" features a first verse in Latin. The verse is intended as an extended Latin pun and makes little sense when translated: Illigitimum non Carborundum, Domine Salvum Fac, Illigitimum non Carborundum, Domine Salvum Fac. Gaudeamus Igitur, Veritas, non Sequitur, Illigitimum non Carborundum, Ipso Facto Uniquely among college bands, the Harvard Band holds its own reunion every five years. It is also the oldest college band reunion in the world, with the first held at the Harvard University