Updated: Sunday, July 6, 2008 at 1:37pm
The men’s heavyweight crew team has had a tough season so far. With a solid victory over Dartmouth on April 12, the Bulldogs retained the Olympic Axe, but the crew has since handed over two trophies that have adorned the Gilder Boathouse for at least a year. Columbia grabbed the Blackwell Cup last weekend and the Elis dropped four of five races this Saturday against...
Men’s heavyweight crew could not carry last week’s success at the Olympic Axe into the Blackwell Cup this weekend. Yale grabbed three of four races against Columbia and Penn but could not pull out a varsity eight win to secure the trophy for the 68th consecutive year in its last home race of the season. Both the freshman eight and freshman four, as well as the 2V...
In its fifth year of competition, the Olympic Axe trophy has not yet left the Gilder Boathouse. The men’s heavyweight crew team ensured that the Axe would not make the nearly 200-mile trek to Hanover, N.H. as the Elis swept the Big Green this Saturday. In the Bulldogs’ second home weekend of the spring season, the home team won every race by a margin of at least 10...
The heavyweight crew team had mixed results against a literal sea of top-class opponents in San Diego’s Mission Bay over the weekend, while the lightweight team enjoyed a win in its first competition of the spring season. The heavyweight varsity boat headed to San Diego, Calif., to participate in the San Diego Classic. Meanwhile, back on the East Coast, the lightweight...
The freshman boats of the men’s heavyweight crew team stole the show on the Housatonic on Saturday. The freshman eight topped Brown by a slim 1.59 seconds, while one of the two fours grabbed a 13.6-second victory. The second split-squad freshman boat came in third to a Brown boat and its Yale teammates. The varsity boats did not fare as well, coming in second in all...
Riley Ford ’11 rowed with the Yale lightweight crew team last fall, but he was not with the team Monday when Yale’s crews practiced for the first time this spring at the Gilder Boathouse in Derby, Conn. “I finished out the fall season and loved it, but there were a lot of other things that I wanted to try out while I was here,” Ford said. But he did not know how...
Meet Ben Miller ’11. At 6-foot-3 and 255 pounds, he is an offensive lineman for the Yale football team. But he’s more than that. He’s also a devout Christian who identifies himself as conservative. He started playing football in the third grade. “It’s the sport I know,” he says. A Minnesota native from a suburb of Minneapolis, Ben attributes a large part of...
This weekend, aggression and mixing it up were key for Yale’s crew teams. Coming off the Head of the Charles last week, the Bulldogs competed in the Princeton Chase, where the men’s heavyweights finished second and the women’s boat won the event. The men’s lightweights entered 11 boats into competition and pulled off a second-place finish in the open pairs. The...
The last time the Yale heavyweight crew team lost, most Elis were still shopping for their Halloween costumes. The Elis’ defeat of Princeton and Cornell in Saturday’s regatta guaranteed that the Bulldogs would remain undefeated heading into the all-important Eastern Sprints on May 13. The Bulldogs outpaced both the Tigers and the Big Red with a time of 5:28.0 to win...
Last week, it was the Olympic Axe. This week, it’s the Blackwell Cup. The Yale heavyweight crew team keeps bringing home the hardware. After outpacing both Penn and Columbia on the Schuylkill River on Saturday, the Bulldogs returned home undefeated in the nascent spring season. The Elis are currently ranked No. 6 nationally in the USRowing Collegiate poll. The first...
The expectations couldn’t be higher. The Yale heavyweight crew team has its eyes set on a national championship after one of the most impressive fall seasons in recent history. The Bulldogs won the Head of the Housatonic, placed third at the Head of the Charles and finished first at the Princeton Chase last semester, and they begin part two of their quest for a first...
