Football | Keys to the game
1. Two-headed QB
Yale came into the season needing to decide between an untested senior and a strong-armed sophomore to take over for graduated quarterback Matt Polhemus ’08. The decision was so tough that head coach Jack Siedlecki went with both of them. The quarterbacks did not disappoint. In the 47-7 laugher against Georgetown, Ryan Fodor ’09 and Brook Hart ’11 combined for 359 yards and four touchdowns. We’ll find out if the two-headed monster is sustainable this week as the Elis take on a much tougher Big Red defense.
2. Mike McLeod ’09
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Also note that, re: point 5, we do in fact have a backup kicker. Alex Barnes '11 was in for extra points and kickoffs in the latter portions of the game.
Karen, do you think the rest of the league has finally figured out Coach Jack's offense? I've rarely seen so much talent used so predictabily.
Stop f*cking calling us the Cantabs! Who the hell are the Cantabs? We are the Crimson. Nobody else from any other school calls us Cantabs unless they are talking about townies (yeah, you know townies, they are the ones that mug you in the dark corners of New Haven) who are CANTABRIGIANS, not Harvard students and not the Crimson. I am sorry you can't wrap your peon, Harvard-rejected blue little brain around how to pluralize a color (something non inferiority complex schools like Dartmouth, Cornell and Stanford seem to have down pat) but stop just making stuff up, like some mysterious mascot of which our own team has never heard. Last time a Yalie just made things up, we ended up in Iraq. God roots for Harvard, just ask the 1968 Yale team. Feel free to play that mystical Cantab football team from the University of Cambridge, the Crimson will be waiting for you right here in Boston at the more-historical-than-Yale-Bowl Harvard Stadium.
The BIG contest is Gerald vs the other potential Rhodes Scholars. He wins, and so will Yale.
Someone's nervous.
#1 needs to take a chill pill and/or go to anger-management class... Does he even have anything to say about what this conversation really should be about -- the football?
i think the harvard kid up there needs to re-read this article's #5 -- "keep the emotions in check." basically, if this guy were on the field on saturday, he would be all over the place like a crazy person. keep your focus, and keep your chill, for God's sake. And for your country's and Yale's sake too!
"It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt" (Abe Lincoln).
"Yale Bowl" doesn't need a hyphen any more than the word "crimson" is pluralized.
But then again, over 90% of your esteemed class graduates "cum laude" (thank you professors!). Larry Summers tried to bring academic standards to fair Harvard and what did you do? You threw him out. Oh, and the reason it is warmer in the summer than in the winter is not because the sun is farther away (something over 60% of Harvard students failed to answer correctly at a graduation several years ago). Face it, while your football team is superior, your school sucks.
Were you at the Georgetown game? Fodor fumbled twice inside the Georgetown five.