Question: 2011 Harvard Crimson football team is a member of what  collegiate athletic conference comprising sports teams from eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States

Context articles: Conference Carolinas
2011 Harvard Crimson football team
Chicago Maroons
1888 Harvard Crimson football team
Dave Campbell (American football)
Patriot League
New England Small College Athletic Conference
1905 Harvard Crimson football team
Harvard–Yale football rivalry
Ivy League

Conference Carolinas, formerly known as the Carolinas-Virginia Athletic Conference (CVAC) or the Carolinas Conference, is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) primarily in Division II, and as one of the four Division I conferences for men's volleyball.
 Originally formed in 1930, the league reached its modern incarnation in 1994.
 Member institutions are located in the southeastern United States in the states of Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
 Conference Carolinas currently has 11 small college or university private institutions that make-up their membership.
The 2011 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 2011 NCAA Division I FCS football season.
 The Crimson were led by 18th year head coach Tim Murphy and played their home games at Harvard Stadium.
 They are a member of the Ivy League.
 They finished the season 9–1, 7–0 in Ivy League play to claim the conference championship.
The Maroons are the intercollegiate sports teams of the University of Chicago.
 They are named after the color maroon.
 Team colors are maroon and gray, and the Phoenix is their mascot.
 They now compete in the NCAA Division III, mostly as members of the University Athletic Association.
 The University of Chicago helped found the Big Ten Conference in 1895; although it dropped football in 1939 (as inconsistent with its academic vision), its other teams remained members until 1946.
 Football returned as a club sport in 1963, as a varsity sport in 1969, and began competing independently in Division III in 1973.
 The school was part of the Midwest Collegiate Athletic Conference from 1976 to 1987, and its football team has joined the Midwest Collegiate Athletic Conference's successor, the Midwest Conference, as of the 2017 season.
 Stagg Field is the home stadium for the re-instated football team.
The 1888 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1888 college football season.
 They finished with a 12–1 record.
 The team outscored its opponents 626-32, including a 102-0 victory over Amherst College on November 3, 1888.
 The Crimson suffered it sole loss to the Princeton Tigers football team, losing by an 18-6 score on November 17, 1888.
 Two days later, Harvard defeated the Penn Quakers football team by a 50-0 score.
Dave Campbell (September 5, 1873 – June 30, 1949) was an American college football player who was a member of the Harvard Crimson football team of Harvard University.
 Campbell was selected as a consensus All-American at the end position for three consecutive years from 1899 to 1901.
 He was the captain of the undefeated 1901 Harvard Crimson football team that finished 12–0.
 He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1958.
The Patriot League is a collegiate athletic conference comprising private institutions of higher education and two United States service academies based in the Northeastern United States.
 Outside of the Ivy League, it is one of the most selective group of higher education institutions in NCAA Division I and has the highest student-athlete graduation rate for both the NCAA graduation success rate and the federal graduation rate.
The New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) is a collegiate athletic conference comprising sports teams from eleven schools, which are ten small liberal arts colleges and one medium-sized research university.
 The schools are all private, located in the Northeastern United States, and are often associated with the Little Ivies.
 The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eleven schools as a group.
 The eleven institutions are Amherst College, Bates College, Bowdoin College, Colby College, Connecticut College, Hamilton College, Middlebury College, Tufts University, Trinity College, Wesleyan University, and Williams College.
The 1905 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1905 college football season.
 The Crimson finished with an 8–2–1 record under head coach Bill Reid, who had coached Harvard in 1901.
 Walter Camp selected two Harvard players (tackle Beaton Squires and guard Francis Burr) as first-team players on his 1905 College Football All-America Team.
 Caspar Whitney selected three Harvard players as first-team members of his All-America team: Burr, tackle Karl Brill and halfback Daniel Hurley.
The Harvard–Yale football rivalry is renewed annually with The Game, an American college football contest between the Harvard Crimson football team of Harvard University and the Yale Bulldogs football team of Yale University.
 The contest concludes the season for both programs, the winner does not take possession of a physical prize, and the respective Yale residential college football teams compete against "sister" Harvard house teams the day before.
 The Game (with the Princeton-Yale contest second) is third among most-played NCAA Division 1 football rivalries.
 Yale leads the series 66–59–8.
The Ivy League is a collegiate athletic conference comprising sports teams from eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States.
 The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group beyond the sports context.
 The eight institutions are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale University.
 The term "Ivy League" has connotations of academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and social elitism.