Why Yale Football Matters
1. You get to cheer for Yale. At least one day a year—more often if you know how nice it is to enjoy a beautiful fall day at the Bowl—you can be utterly partisan. You have a team (a really good team) to support, songs to sing, colors to dress in, a real live lovable bulldog, and friends to share the experience. Tangibles and intangibles, objects of your affection and an opportunity to be unabashedly subjective: cheer, scream, be a fan. Drop your guard and surrender your cool to the heat of the game with all its drama—you’ll need the heat, by the way: Dress warmly. What’s that? You have...
Good call. The story can be found here:
http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/15754
Great piece by a great professor. This should be run by the YDN every year before the Game.
Thanks for this fine piece, equally pertinent in the wake of a loss or a win in The Game. Despite being raised on major-conference football in the South (Atlantic Coast Conference, Southeastern Conference), it was the imaginative journey to football Saturdays at the Yale Bowl in New Haven which made Yale my No. 1 choice of college admissions back in the 1960s.
Keep up the great sports journalism in The Yale Daily News!
David Proctor McKnight (B.A., History, Duke)
Durham, N.C.
[Yale Waiting List, Class of 1970!]
PS--Now in men's basketball, it promises to be a great Yale-Harvard series with our illustrious Duke alum Tommy Amaker, a true gentleman and great basketball guy, overseeing your occasionally lovable rivals' program at Harvard.
Jacob Leibenluft wrote a great story about Yale's contributions to modern football a couple years ago that you should link to.