Updated: Thursday, March 18, 2010 1:40 p.m.
Even as they scramble to slash their own budgets, administrators said Wednesday that they have cobbled together an estimated $30,000 to subsidize student tickets to the men’s hockey team’s NCAA Tournament opener on Friday in Bridgeport.
With Mory's closed, maybe WISER will become the “old girls club” for Yale women’s athletics.
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.
Decades from now, if Tom Williams is looked upon as among Yale’s legendary coaches, the University will know exactly whom to thank: former Mississippi State football coach Sylvester Croom. Croom resigned as head coach on Nov. 29 after a difficult 4-8 season. Little did Croom know that he had set in motion a coaching carousel that would ultimately result in Tom Williams’...
For a search that seemed never-ending, it was fitting that even after their selection had leaked out, officials in the Athletics Department faced one last delay before they could introduce Yale’s next head football coach.
A week after concluding a disappointing 2008 season with a shutout loss in The Game, the Yale football team now must deal with another loss. As criticism from students and alumni mounted following Harvard’s 10-0 steamrolling, football coach Jack Siedlecki unexpectedly announced his retirement from coaching on Wednesday after 12 years presiding over one of college...
Before he took the position, the League’s staff was half of its current size — it now comprises 10 administrators — and the NCAA did not sponsor championships for women’s teams. Now, Ivy League athletes participate in 33 sports and have competed in multiple national championships, for which they previously did not qualify or to which they were not invited.
Despite allegations that Harvard University’s admissions standards for athletic recruits may be slipping, athletics officials at both Harvard and Yale say there is not yet enough evidence to speak to the allegations’ veracity.
The number of matriculating athletes for each incoming freshman class will likely remain the same, but coaches, students and administrators all said the new policy — which dramatically reduces the required contribution for families making up to $200,000 a year — will open doors for athletes who may have discounted Yale as an option because of affordability.
Even if two new residential colleges increase the number of freshmen filing through Phelps Gate each August, the number making the early-morning trek to Payne Whitney Gymnasium will probably remain the same.
This year’s Harvard-Yale experience was full of hopeful waiting — fans waiting for a touchdown, alumni waiting to enter the parking lot and students waiting for buses to get to and from The Game. While most students interviewed thought the busing system was adequate, many also said they were at least a little frustrated with slow-moving lines and inefficiently organized...
A week after the University rolled out its Zipcar program, the city of New Haven is trying to bring the car-sharing service to downtown apartment dwellers.
