Yale Daily News

Updated: Saturday, November 21, 2009 7:35 p.m.

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FOOTBALL | One step closer

Staff Reporter
Published Monday, November 17, 2008

Fortunately for the football team, style points have no effect on a game’s outcome.

It may have been ugly, but for the second consecutive week the Bulldogs defeated an Ivy League foe in a defensive struggle. After knocking off first-place Brown last week, the Bulldogs on Saturday held Princeton scoreless in sloppy conditions, 14-0.

The shutout was Yale’s first against Princeton in 71 years and a perfect way for the class of 2009 to finish their careers at the Yale Bowl.

“There’s no better way to go out than with a win over Princeton, our rival, and a shutout,”...

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