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harvard Football News 2016
MIKE DONOVAN
Assistant Coach
Defensive Backs
Mike Donovan rejoined
the Harvard football staff
as an assistant coach in
March 2014 and enters
his third season with the Crimson in 2016. His
recruiting areas include Alabama, Arkansas,
Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, New Hampshire,
New Mexico, Rhode Island, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Vermont and West Virginia.
Donovan, who served as an assistant football
operations coordinator at Harvard from
2011-12, works with the defensive backs in his
second stint with the Crimson.
In 2015, Harvard’s secondary helped to
hold opponents to an average of 13.0 points
per game. The Crimson won its 17th Ivy
League title and third-straight. Sean Ahern,
who was elected the Harvard’s 143rd captain,
was unanimously selected to All-Ivy first
team. Chris Evans and Asante Gibson were
also named to All-Ancient Eight teams.
In 2014, the Crimson posted the program’s
17th undefeated, untied record, going 10-0
overall and winning the team’s 16th Ivy title.
The defensive line was at the center of
the championship run, helping the Crimson
rank first in the nation in scoring defense
(12.3 points allowed per game) and fourth
in rushing defense (86.8 yards allowed per
game). Zack Hodges was named the co-recipient
of the Asa S. Bushnell Cup, as Ivy
Co-Defensive Player of the Year, and was
one of three defensive linemen to be named
to the All-Ivy team.
Donovan, a native of Stoughton, Massachusetts,
was previously a defensive quality control
assistant at Delaware for the 2013 season,
helping the Blue Hens finish with a 7-5 overall
mark. While at Delaware, Donovan oversaw
film breakdown and organizing official recruiting
visits.
A 2011 graduate from Bentley with a degree
in corporate finance and accounting, he
earned his master’s degree in taxation from
Bentley later that year. He began his coaching
career at Stoughton High School, serving
as defensive line and wide receivers coach in
2009. He then worked with the wide receivers
as a student coach at Bentley in 2010.
LOGAN JOHNSON
Assistant Coach
Defensive Line
Logan Johnson joined
the Harvard football staff
as an assistant coach in
March 2015 and begins
his second season as a defensive line coach
in 2016.
The defensive line helped the Crimson to
its 17th Ivy title in 2015 by allowing just 13.0
points per game. Defensive end James Duberg
was named All-Ivy second team after
registering 16 tackles and four quarterback
hurries.
He recruits much of the western part of
the country, including Alaska, Colorado,
Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon,
Utah, Washington and Wyoming.
Johnson spent 2014 as a defensive line
coach at Bentley after working as a special
teams quality control coach at Coastal Carolina
in 2013. His duties with the Chanticleers also
included breaking down film and creating individual
weekly scouting reports for each special
teams unit, organizing NFL scouting visits
throughout the 2013 season and organizing
special teams unit substitutions during games.
Johnson spent the previous two years as an
assistant football coach at Fitchburg State,
working with the running backs, linebackers
and special teams.
A Fitchburg, Massachusetts native, Johnson
received his bachelor of science in exercise
and sports science in 2011 and earned his MBA
from Fitchburg State in 2013. He played offensive
and defensive line at Fitchburg State and
earned first-team All-New England Football
Conference honors as a senior in 2010.
MIKE MORRIS
Director of Football Operations
Michael Morris was
added to the Harvard
football staff as the director
of football operations
in April 2015 and begins his second season
with the Crimson in 2016.
Morris came to Cambridge after spending
last year as the assistant director of football
operations at Dartmouth.
At Dartmouth, Morris was responsible
for the organization and scheduling of
unofficial visits and all game day recruiting
responsibilities, as well as assisting
in the coordination of official visits as it
related to travel, preparing itineraries and
executing logistics of the schedule. Morris was
a liaison for the team to multiple departments
at Dartmouth, and managed head coach Buddy
Teevens’ schedule.
Prior to his stay at Dartmouth, Morris was an
athletic operations intern at Boston College,
assisting in all aspects of game management
and the hiring, training and scheduling of student
event staff workers.
Morris served as a graduate assistant at
Springfield in athletic administration, focusing
on contest management for athletic events.
He received his master’s degree in education
from Springfield in athletic administration in
2013 and bachelor’s degree in communication
from Boston College in 2011.
Morris married Jade Prickett in July 2016.
The couple resides in Brighton, Massachusetts.
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