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In November 1894, the Yale and Harvard football teams met in Springfield, Massachusetts, for their 17th contest, which would come to be known as the... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 13 2024 10:00pm
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Yale's 151st varsity football team—or Team 151, as they style themselves—has its season opener on Saturday at Holy Cross. We just ran across this... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 19 2024 12:00am
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Fifty years ago tonight, Richard Nixon announced that he would resign as president of the United States. At noon the next day, Gerald R. Ford... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 7 2024 08:00pm
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Harvard's team may fight to the end, but Yale will win! More than 51,000 people eventually made their way into the Bowl from the tailgates on... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 19 2023 10:28pm
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On the eve of The Game, we thought you might appreciate this portrait of Eli football hero Frank Merriwell that we found in a box at the archives... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 16 2023 10:00pm
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A classic tailgate picnic, seen on a football program from 1956. It’ll be a beautiful day for tailgating and football on Saturday, when the... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 13 2022 08:00am
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Yale starts its 150th anniversary football season this Saturday at Holy Cross. Eighty years ago, as seen on our November 1942 cover, football... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 15 2022 08:12am
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This fall, Yale celebrates the 150th anniversary of its first football game—a 3–0 victory over Columbia in New Haven on November 16... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 11 2022 08:00am
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As Team 148 prepares to play Harvard at the Bowl on Saturday, here’s a look at Team 23 from 1896. The team finished with a 13–1 record... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 18 2021 08:00am
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Twenty-five years ago, we marked the retirement of Carm Cozza, head coach of the Yale football team from 1965 through 1996, with a cover story.... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 21 2021 08:05am
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Football will be back this fall after a year’s absence, starting with Holy Cross on September 18 and ending with The Game at The Bowl on... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 22 2021 09:30am
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Back in 1890, football was part of Thanksgiving at Yale, as seen in Frederic Remington’s painting (from the Yale Art Gallery) of that... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 25 2020 06:30am
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Missing Yale football this season? Here's a page from our archives featuring the team from 125 years ago. The 1895 squad finished 13–0–2... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 22 2020 08:27am
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Carmen Louis Cozza, who was Yale’s head football coach from 1965 to 1996, died yesterday at age 87. One of his former players, Rich Diana... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 5 2018 09:58am
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It is likely that there are players on this year’s football team who were not yet walking—much less tackling—when Yale last beat... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 16 2017 08:25am
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Spotted on an Old Campus bulletin board this morning: advice for The Game this weekend. Have anything to add? Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 15 2017 10:47am
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Seventy-five years ago this month, Yale had the war on its mind, but not to the complete exclusion of football. (That’s Handsome Dan V, by the... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 2 2017 01:46pm
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With temperatures in the 30s, students formed a line as long as a football field yesterday morning outside Ray Tompkins House in hope of getting tickets to... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 19 2014 11:04am
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On Saturday, the football team plays its last home game of the season against Princeton, finishing off a season-long celebration of the Yale... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 13 2014 10:35am
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On Saturday, a thousand or so West Point cadets will march to the Yale Bowl for the Bulldogs’ first game against Army since 1996. The scene may... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 25 2014 10:51am
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