All season, Yale head coach Tom Williams has used trick plays to his team's advantage. But that changed for the Bulldogs at the Yale Bowl on Saturday — and in the most critical of ways. Harvard overcame a 10–0 deficit in the fourth quarter and defeated the Bulldogs 14–10.

R.J. Rico blogged live from the Yale Bowl during the 126th Harvard-Yale football game.

Coming into Saturday’s game, the Bulldogs are the underdogs — and they aren’t afraid to admit it. In fact, captain and linebacker Paul Rice ’10 said this fact would make a victory all the better.

Those of us on The Crimson’s sports board feel the same way about Yale football coach Tom Williams as Boston Red Sox fans feel about the Yankees’ closer, Mariano Rivera. We hate the team, but we respect the man.

Times have certainly changed since the Yale and Harvard football teams first met in 1875, but one thing remains the same — the unmatched spirit and rivalry of The Game.

Harvard sucks. In an informal poll of 3.5 people (one of the ladies polled was pregnant), 100 percent of people overwhelmingly agreed with that assessment. In fact, Harvard agreed with that assessment when Cantab fans held up red and white placards to spell “WE SUCK” in 2004.

A guide to the key players in Saturday's Harvard-Yale football game.

The men’s hockey team fell just short last night against UMass at Ingalls Rink. In a game of runs, the Bulldogs lost 4–3 in a last-minute overtime goal.

The women’s basketball team suffered its first lost of the season Thursday at the hands of the No. 7 ranked Arizona State Sun Devils at the John J. Lee Amphitheater. The Bulldogs (2–1) were soundly defeated 82–46, as the Pac-10 Sun Devils (2–0) dominated from the opening tip.

After winning its first game of the season Tuesday against Colgate, the men’s basketball team will look to continue their momentum Saturday night against Quinnipiac (1–1) at the John J. Lee Amphitheater.

While most of Yale gears up for The Game on Saturday, the women’s hockey team will take on the Crimson Friday night at Ingalls Rink.

After a rigorous preseason, the men’s squash team steps back on the court Saturday for its first match of the season. The Bulldogs will take on Williams, which they beat in the 2008–’09 season 9–0.

After finishing second at the Ivy Scrimmages last weekend, the Yale women’s squash team is looking to capture a win in its first regular season match against Williams College on Friday at the Brady Squash Center.

Marc Beck live-blogs the Yale men's hockey game against Massachusetts, starting at 7 p.m. Thursday.

Konrad Coutinho live-blogs the Yale women's basketball game against Arizona State, starting at 7 p.m. Thursday.

He’s been called “a terrible morning person” and dislikes flash photography. He raises thousands of dollars for charity and sets our hearts ablaze with Yale pride. He is, of course, Handsome Dan, and the campus’ biggest nonhuman celebrity crush has had a busy week.

It’s simply called The Game for a reason. It’s the most important athletic event of the year for many Yalies, even in years when the Ivy League title is not on the line for the Bulldogs. But what most Yalies might not know, or tend to forget, is that there are many other games that take place on the same day.

The night before the football season opener at Georgetown in September, each freshman on the travel team received a phone call in his hotel room.

If the Bulldogs are going to win The Game this year, this is how they're going to do it.

As autumn turns to winter, and the leaves fall off New Haven’s elm trees, another soccer season will fade into the history books.