After three consecutive record-breaking seasons, college football attendance declined slightly for the first time in five years. A total of 48,284,673 fans attended games at all 630 NCAA schools during the 2009 season (including home games, neutral-site… more »

Introduced at Annual Team Banquet in Commons Sunday Senior defensive lineman Tom McCarthy (Chester, N.J./Delbarton) has been elected captain of the Yale football team for the 2010 season after a vote by team members. McCarthy, the 133rd captain in Ya… more »

Imagine, for a second, that instead of traveling to Holy Cross tomorrow to watch Harvard take on the Crusaders, you were one of over 30,000 fans packing into a maximum-capacity Harvard Stadium as the Crimson kicked off its season against a major-confere… more »

For the third time in four years, Harvard was selected the favorite in the annual Ivy League Football Preseason Media Poll to win the 2009 Ivy title, announced today on the Ivy League Football Media Day Teleconference. Harvard (9-1, 6-1 Ivy in 2008)… more »

Dartmouth College, where former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson was an All Ivy football player in the 1960s, has scrapped a $15 million stadium renovation project as its sports endowment plunged as much as 18 percent. Harvard University, the wea… more »

After about the third time I rephrased the same question, Robin Harris couldn’t mistake the direction of the conversation Friday. Harris, the new executive director/commissioner of the Ivy League, who replaced Jeffrey Orleans on July 1, gently rebuke… more »

Lackluster teams prompt calls for change; a new chief’s listening tour. The schools of the Ivy League are among the nation’s finest and richest, with billions in endowments under their command. From law to business to medicine, they’re No. 1 in pract… more »

Former Nebraska quarterback Patrick Witt, who decided to transfer prior to the start of spring practice in February, has officially chosen Yale as his destination. The Huskers’ backup signal caller last season, Witt was expected to battle for the sta… more »

Rafferty film details Harvard-Yale showdown. It’s called The Game for a reason. The gridiron rivalry between Harvard and Yale — two schools famed for academic instead of athletic prowess — can be just as intense as more well-known football clashes… more »

A team thinks they walk on water. Can’t lose. Looks at opponents like new grass — something to walk on. But no matter how mighty the bombast, stunning the uniforms or glowing the newspaper clips, oh how the mighty can fall. No one knows that age-o… more »

Proximity, history could charge UD-DSU meetings. The University of Delaware and Delaware State University have some catching up to do. Football rivalries don't form overnight. But UD and DSU already have many of the ingredients to make this one sp… more »

SANDPOINT — When an Ivy League school comes calling, it’s tough to pass up. Doug Semones, who was the defensive coordinator for the past three years at Sandpoint High School, received an offer from an old friend to coach football at Yale University, ma… more »

The New Yorker has reservations about the inclusion of a third-string football player - and one season sprint football player - at the Ivy league dinner earlier this month. By last Thursday night, with the changing of the guard in Washington complete… more »

Junior Paul Rice (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) has been elected captain of the 2009 Yale football team by a player vote taken Friday morning at Ray Tompkins House. Rice is the 132nd captain in Yale’s storied history. Rice helped Yale to its second strai… more »

Jacksonville Jaguars defensive assistant Tom Williams has accepted Yale's head football coach job according to a source familiar with the search. The 39-year-old Williams, who will be officially announced as the Bulldogs' coach at a 2 p.m. press conf… more »