Blue Crushed
Cannot agree more with the above post. I have never been so humiliated watching a Yale football game. Fire Siedlecki for his atrocious and one-dimensional playcalling, and his failure to beat Harvard. And of course, the parking and the horrid PA system (why has that never been fixed?) just made things worse.
we need Balance in our offense
I agree, please fire Siedlecki
we need a coach who can add to Yale's
play book. I don't think Yale players
are outmatch by the harvard defenders.
but you can't wait all season to turn to
plan b (passing game) which had not been used too much all year. i understand that if rushing 300 yards per game was wining games than there was no need for passing. But alot of people both on our side and the competition predicted mike to be injured towards the end of the season if he kept carrying the ball so much (allowing teams to beat him down game after game)and if so the yale offense would suffer and it did. and i don't think Drake (wr) and john (fb) or denny brown (wr) were not good enough to have made an excellent air attack, i just think that they did not get too much experience except for the georgetown game and little highlights like the penn 3ot win and princeton. maybe more short passes to make them and polhemus comfortable would have help, like it was suggested above. Polhemus was a great quaterback !!!!! thanks for the two great wining seasons MATT POLHEMUS!!!
Proud 06' Yalie
Go Bulldogs
"Defeat is one thing, disgrace is another" -- Winston Churchill
Polhemus was the worst QB in the Ivy League this year; Yale won in spite of him, thanks to McLeod.
81 completions in 174 attempts, with 7 interceptions, a 46.6% completion percentage, with 1060 yards and 4TDs.
The Game was a disaster, and a replay of coaching staff failures in other big games of the past. Although Harvard certainly appeared to be the better team across the board, Yale should have anticipated some obvious factors.
First of all Mike McLeod had been far from 100% in the last four games. Harvard was going to key on him...and Harvard came into the game with the #1 defense against the rush in the Ivy League. It doesn't take an Einstein to realize that a variety of offensive plays would be needed. Why not alternate running back Jordan Farrell with McLeod as soon as it was obvious he wasn't going to have a good day. Matt Polhemus is an inaccurate passer? Why not build his confidence by calling short passes to tight end Langston Johnson and other receivers, instead of throwing long right away.
Yale ran about three plays all day...how predictable and pathetic in the biggest game in 47 years. Furthermore, why wasn't the team ready to play? How could they not be pumped? On defense, Yale faced the best passer they'd seen all year, as Harvard shredded the secondary.
Worst of all the game was embarrassing and humiliating in the annals of Yale football. On another note, it's high time the University figured out how to handle such a large crowd and deal far more effectively with parking issues. Absolutely nothing good came of this day. It's time for Jack Siedlecki to stop being so rigid and start giving the players a chance to win. How about some creativity, some variety, some common sense? I am both bitterly disappointed and outraged.
Angry '78 Yalie