<p>I'm hoping to get into Harvard next year. I was wondering what my chances were of walking-on to either the college football or baseball team. I consider myself highly athletic and have played rugby and cricket to very high levels so was thinking I could have the skill-set to try football or baseball. What would one's chances be with no prior experience at either sport?</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure anyone can walk onto the football team. I don't know about baseball, though.</p>
<p>Either way, it wouldn't be a bad idea to contact the coaches to find out.</p>
<p>If you are very big, very muscular, athletically talented, and very fast, they can probably find room for you somewhere on the football team - a lineman or something. But baseball is much more of a skill sport. It might be hard to quickly translate cricket skills to baseball - just as it would be hard for a baseball player to jump right into cricket.</p>