New football coach: ‘We’re going to beat Harvard’
In the wood-paneled Varsity Room at Ray Tompkins House on Wednesday, a few yards away from a case displaying the jewels of Yale athletic championships of yore, Tom Williams strode to the lectern, surveyed the crowd and flashed a smile.
“First and foremost, good afternoon,” he said, “and welcome to a new era of Yale football.”
Williams, 39, a defensive assistant for the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars, was introduced as Yale’s 33rd head football coach last week, ending a 42-day search to find the successor to Jack Siedlecki. He becomes the first African-American to hold the...
