Word: yaleness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With Harvard, Princeton, and University of Virginia out of the early admissions race, Yale and a handful of elite colleges are reporting skyrocketing early application numbers...
With Dowling, who famously had not lost a game since middle school, and Hill, the next year’s NFL Rookie of the Year with the Dallas Cowboys and later the father of NBA star Grant Hill, leading the way, Yale sprinted out to a 22-0 lead. Little-used backup quarterback Frank Champi ’70 came on for the Crimson, which trailed, 29-13, when it recovered a fumble deep in its own territory with under four minutes remaining...
...Harvard had earned a share of the Ivy title, but even more rewardingly, had stunned the experts and foiled the ballyhooed Bulldogs’ perfect season. The shock and satisfaction of the draw was memorialized in this paper’s Monday banner headline: “Harvard Beats Yale...
...Again, Yale is the odds-on favorite—its winning streak stands at 10, last season’s Game and nine straight in 2007, it is playing in New Haven, where it has outscored opponents by a combined tally of 141-36 in four games this season, and it currently leads the Ancient Eight in scoring offense and all of I-AA in scoring defense. And again, Harvard has the opportunity to play spoiler and ruin its archrival’s perfect season...
...football,” which bore a striking resemblance to soccer. Meanwhile, Harvard had been playing their own version, based roughly on the rules of rugby. Ever the football snobs, Harvard declined an invitation to hash out official rules for the game alongside Columbia, Princeton, Rutgers and Yale. It wasn’t until 1874, when Harvard played against McGill University, that the birth of intercollegiate football was officially recognized. Harvard’s elitism won out in 1875 in the first Harvard-Yale match-up. Yale was forced to concede to Harvard’s superior athletic authority...