Welcome to the palace,” says Patrick Witt, JE ’12, by way of apology. The staircase of the DKE fraternity house is strewn with Styrofoam cups. There is a shoe on top of a bookshelf, a coffee mug perched on a fence post. Three couches sit on the front… more »

At one point in practice Tuesday morning, Yale defensive end Austin Pulsipher made a mistake and coach Tom Williams pounced. "Did marriage affect you?" Williams recalls saying. With a ceremony Aug. 13 in Newport Beach, Calif., Pulsipher quickly ma… more »

Teams to renew rivalries with Ivy League Non-scholarship leagues square off seven times on Saturday Although plenty of people following Patriot League football these days wish the league would award scholarships and aspire to be more like the Colo… more »

Ivy League universities, longtime incubators for the country’s top performers in fields like science, law, academics and politics, will showcase their newest class of elite talent this fall: quarterbacks. Columbia and Pennsylvania return first-team a… more »

Running back Alex Thomas ’12 came to preseason with a new biceps tattoo: his nickname, Train. Tattoos are not new for the Eli star, who had his initials inked on his arms a few years ago. But Thomas’ new tattoo is not his most original, wide receiver… more »

Jeff Marrs isn’t the first farmer to attend class with the sons of corporate titans at Yale University. He just might be the first licensed and practicing auctioneer. The 6-foot-3, 270-pound guard from Garden Prairie, Illinois, has his own auction bu… more »

Regarded as the most famous football games in Ivy League history, the 1968 Yale-Harvard game also set up one of the most famous headlines. After an amazing comeback by Harvard to tie the game, the Harvard Crimson's headline the next day stated, "Harvard… more »

Brown University, Bryant University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Davidson College, Harvard University, Princeton University, University of Dayton, University of New Hampshire, University of Pennsylvania, Yale University a… more »

Football has become a Thanksgiving Day tradition. What league was the first to schedule a game on the holiday? The Intercollegiate Football Association was formed in 1872. Two years later, and continuing for the next decade, the association held its… more »

The Ivy League is moving to address an increase in head injuries and concussions in contact sports, including football. In response to concerns about a recent increase in head injuries across sports — including major professional sports leagues, like… more »

Universities with exceptional academic reputations can also be a force in the world of sports What do Condoleezza Rice, John Elway, Sandra Day O’Connor, and Jim Plunkett all share in common? All four showed up for Stanford’s Orange Bowl to support th… more »

“And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his lif… more »

Ivy League sporting events may be coming soon to a television set near you. In an effort to reach out to a wider fan base, Ivy League Executive Director Robin Harris said the league is in talks with multiple national cable and satellite television ne… more »

WEST HAVEN — A year ago at this time, Tom Williams seemingly spent as much time during spring drills getting to know his players as he did coaching them. There is no such issue to contend with this spring as Williams passed the halfway point of his seco… more »

The first time Trevor Peterson navigated his way through the football recruiting process, he passed on an Ivy League education. After spending the 2009 season as a redshirt at Boise State, Peterson was determined not to make the same mistake twice.… more »