#82 -
Matt Luft
Position: Wide Receiver
Year: Senior
Hometown: Thousand Oaks, Calif.
High School: Thousand Oaks
Height: 6-6
Weight: 225
House Affiliation: Pforzheimer
At Harvard:
2009: Named Preseason All-America Honorable Mention by the
Consensus Draft Services ... Preseason
All-America Honorable Mention by the Colege Sporting
News ... Named preseason All-Ivy League First Team by Phil
Steel's Football Magazine ... Entered the season with 115
career receptions ... Pulled down the game-winning touchdown, a
15-yarder, by tiptoeing the back of the end zone in a win over
Brown on Sept. 25 ... Caught three passes for 55 yards including a
41-yard TD catch late in the game of a 14-10 win at Yale.
2008: All-Ivy League First-Team after catching
53 passes for 875 yards and five touchdowns ... Ranked among the
national leaders with a 16.5-yard per reception average ...
Five-time Ivy League Honor Roll selection ... Named to the Ivy
League Honor Roll after catching 10 passes for 148 yards and two
TDs at Brown, including four catches for 99 yards in the first
quarter ... Had seven catches for 81 yards in a win at Lafayette
... Ivy League Honor Roll after catching four passes for 139 yards
(34.8 ypc) in a win over previously undefeated Cornell. Three of
his catches went for 25-plus yards with a 25-yarder, a 40-yarder
and a highlight-reel 66-yard catch. ... Ivy League Honor Roll after
catching seven passes for 111 yards and two TDs in a win over
Lehigh ... Ivy League Honor Roll after catching five passes for 103
yards in a win at Princeton ... Ivy League Honor Roll with six
catches for 110 yards and one reception in a win over Columbia ...
Major H recipient.
2007: All-Ivy League Second Team ... Two-time
Ivy League Honor Roll honoree ... Second on team with 43 receptions
while leading the team in yards per reception (16.8) for a total of
721 yards with six touchdowns ... Caught at least two passes in
every game ... Had eight receptions for 160 yards and two
touchdowns at Yale on Nov. 17 in a game in which he had five
catches for 123 yards and two TDs in the first quarter alone ...
had four catches for 95 yards and a touchdown against Penn on Nov.
10 ... had a 51-yard touchdown in a four-catch, 89-yard afternoon
at Cornell Oct. 6 ... Major H recipient.
2006: Earned a Major H award as a freshman
after appearing in nine games with six starts ... Ranked second on
the team in receiving yards and fourth in receptions ... Had a
season-high five receptions for 88 yards against Penn ... Had two
receptions for 72 yards, including a 42-yard touchdown catch, in
the come-from-behind win against Lehigh ... Had four receptions for
59 yards against Princeton ... Caught three passes for 62 yards in
his collegiate debut against Holy Cross.
Before Harvard:
Three-year letterwinner and starter at Thousand Oaks HS ... Also
won four letters in basketball ... Captained both teams ... Named
Marmounte League defensive player of the year and Ventura County
Star defensive player of the year ... First team All-CIF Division
IV ... Named to CIF Super 11 Team ... Holds 11 school records ...
Two-year member of the math team ... Two-time academic all-county.
Personal:
Active with church youth group ... Hobbies include reading and
basketball ... Parents, Brian and Donna, were athletes at Southern
California ... Plans a career in business.