Author Archives: Charles Condro

It has been almost 139 years since Yale and Princeton first faced off on the gridiron. Both the game and the two universities have changed, but the two colleges will meet again tomorrow in the oldest rivalry in the Ivy League.

Yale trailed Columbia 57–58 with seven seconds left when guard Reggie Willhite ’12 drove to the basket for the game-winning layup to silence the crowd at Levien Gym last February. With Willhite and first-team All-Ivy center Greg Mangano ’12 now graduated, the Bulldogs will have to look to others to step up as the 2012–’13 »

Running back Tyler Varga ’15 takes the snap. He runs to the outside, fakes the pitch and runs untouched into the end zone for a 28-yard touchdown run. Varga’s score gave Yale an early 7–3 lead over the Columbia Lions on Oct. 27. Yale would go on to lose 26–22, but the first-quarter run by »

“Under 50 percent.” That is how head coach Tony Reno described the injury status of quarterback Eric Williams ’16 after Williams took the field in Saturday’s game against Brown. Struggling through the pain of a separated non-throwing shoulder, Williams was unable to lead the Elis to victory over the Bears. Yale (2–6, 1–4 Ivy) was »

HANDLE THE HAND-OFF Before last week, nobody on the football team expected that running back Tyler Varga ’15 would have to hand the ball off to fellow back Mordecai Cargill ’13, so a few mishaps in the transfer were bound to happen. The lack of familiarity on the hand-offs last week directly caused one fumble »

The Bulldogs will try to run away from their problems tomorrow. Possibly having to play without a true quarterback for the second straight week, Yale (2–5, 1–3 Ivy) will look to ride its powerful ground attack to a victory at Brown (4–3, 1–3 Ivy) on Saturday. Yale ranks second in the Ivy League with 194.4 »

Yale ran 54 plays on offense on Saturday, but not one of those plays involved a player listed as a quarterback on the Elis’ roster. Even with the personnel shortages, the Bulldogs (2–5, 1–3 Ivy) almost came away with a win at Columbia before falling 26–22 on Saturday, Running back Tyler Varga ’15 took the »

A lot has happened since Yale last won a football game. The St. Louis Cardinals have won 19 games. “Binders Full of Women” has accrued more than 350,000 likes on Facebook. And professor John Gaddis has assigned 720 pages of reading in his Cold War history lecture. But on Saturday at the Yale Bowl, the »

Contain Ragone: When asked what Penn brings to the table in Saturday’s game, head coach Tony Reno immediately identified dual-threat senior quarterback Billy Ragone. Last year Ragone tore up the Eli defense in the Quakers’ 37–25 victory in Philadelphia. He threw for 234 yards and three scores and rushed for 94 yards and a touchdown. »

The sun was setting on a cold fall afternoon as the lights illuminated the Yale practice field. Tuesday’s practice should have ended 15 minutes earlier, but cries of “Convert in the red zone! Get in the end zone!” split the air and the Bulldogs toiled on. The Elis are hoping that their added focus on »

Four Canadians will skate for the Bulldogs this winter, but this fall it has been a football star from the great white north who has taken Yale by storm. Running back Tyler Varga ’15 has entered the Ivy League football scene and the Ivy League Rookie of the Year discussion from an unusual football background. »

Yale’s search for its first home win of 2012 will have to continue at least one more week. On Saturday’s game at the Yale Bowl, the Elis blew a 10–7 halftime lead to fall 20–10 to Lafayette. Quarterback Eric Williams ’16 threw two interceptions in the first quarter, but each time the Bulldog defense forced »