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Yale football team Captain Tom Giella had just finished the main course at the post-Cornell game team dinner but was still hungry. Yet Cornell's 41-7 destruction of the Bulldogs just a few hours earlier lingered. Giella removed himself from the table...
...That game was just absurd," Giella recalls. "We made them look like the Dallas Cowboys and made ourselves look like we'd never been coached...
That pounding administered by previously winless Cornell left the Yale squad 0-8 and earned Giella an honor he'd just as soon do without. With the loss, Thomas Joseph Giella earned the dubious distinction as the captain of the worst football team in Yale history...