It wasn’t supposed to be like this. The football team opened its Ivy League slate at Cornell (2-0, 1-0 Ivy) on a wet Saturday and left Ithaca with a very sour taste in its mouth. A year after obliterating the Big Red at home, 51-12, the highly fav… more »

After Saturday’s season-opener, one might argue that Yale has a little more to brag about than just its boolah boolah. It has a pretty good football team, too. In Georgetown’s third contest of the young season, the Hoyas (1-2, 0-1 Patriot League) suf… more »

Saturday afternoon may just have been the beginning of a new era of Yale football. The football team did something in its opener that many undergrads have not seen in their time in New Haven — it threw the pigskin all over the field and threw it well… more »

In last season’s opener against Georgetown, head football coach Jack Siedlecki acknowledged that his team didn’t come out firing on all cylinders, describing the performance as “sluggish.” What a difference a year makes. Under blue skies and in pe… more »

The Yale Bowl. Nearly 94 years of college football history. More than 64,000 people on hand. The Bulldogs’ season-opener. Can a road game get much tougher than that? Add Yale’s 17-3 record over the past two seasons to the equation and you realize exa… more »

The time has come. With teams across the nation a couple weeks into their seasons, the football team begins its 136th season against Georgetown (1-1) on Saturday at The Yale Bowl. This will be just the second meeting between the two schools. The f… more »

Ivy League football should have a few more fans from the local area this season as teams open play on Saturday. It's not just Palo Alto grad Nathan Ford's league any more. Ford remains the top local athlete in the Division I non-scholarship conferenc… more »

NEW HAVEN - — For some at Yale, the sting of the season-ending loss to Harvard faded in weeks. Others have held on to it a bit longer. "Getting over it?" left guard Stephen Morse said. "I don't know if I really have." The burden for Yale is that t… more »

Are you ready for some football? I know I am. It is always a long, almost painful wait before Ivy League football season starts. And while the pros and D-I college ball are acceptable substitutes for the time being, there’s nothing like cheering for… more »

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- College football is a multibillion-dollar business. Television networks pay the Bowl Championship Series conferences millions of dollars to broadcast their games on an annual basis. Record attendance figures are being set every year… more »

NEW HAVEN — The last image of the Yale football team is a classic case of perception being reality. The memory of Yale’s 37-6 blowout loss to Harvard at Yale Bowl last fall, with the Ivy League title on the line, lingers like a bad house guest, and m… more »

NEW HAVEN — The timing wasn’t only impeccable, it was deliciously ironic. On the 40th anniversary of the season where the Harvard and Yale football teams played the most famous tie in college football history, the long-time rivals finished in a tie a… more »

NEW HAVEN — Before college football put in the overtime rule in 1996, an occasional Ivy League game ended in a tie. But preseason news media polls ending in ties? Twice in nine years? In 2000, Yale and Cornell tied for first place in the Ivy preseaso… more »

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Despite returning the largest senior class in the Ivy League, the Cornell football team was picked to finish sixth in the league's preseason media poll, which was released Tuesday morning at the annual media day festivities at Yale Go… more »

The lifelong Orland Park resident and 2006 Providence Catholic High School graduate, will enter his junior season as a football player at Yale University later this month. "Everything is going well," Farrell said. "The season is starting soon (Yale's… more »