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Key Players Based on their past performances and positions they will take on the field Saturday, The following make up the players who will likely determine the outcome of this year’s edition of The Game. Yale: Patrick Witt ’12: After passing up a shot at the Rhodes Scholarship, Witt will lead the Blue and White »

M. HOCKEY | Yale vs. Dartmouth

All season Yale’s first-year head coach, Tom Williams, has used trick plays to his team’s advantage. That changed for the Bulldogs, though, on Saturday — and in the most critical of ways. With Yale on its own 25-yard line and leading 10-7 with 2:25 remaining in the game, Williams opted to try a trick punt »

Head coach Tom Williams has maintained that he would not shy away from gutsy calls after last year’s failed fake punt against Harvard. On Saturday, he put his money where his mouth was — and this time it paid off. With less than 10 seconds remaining and the Bulldogs (1–0) trailing Georgetown 35–34, quarterback Patrick »

la href=”http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php?option=com_mobile&task=viewaltcast&altcast_code=dd4f896d75″ >iPhone on staging FOOTBALL | The Bulldogs go head-to-head with Georgetown at the Yale Bowl for the first game of the season, starting at 12 p.m.

After losing defensive stars Larry Abare ’10, Tim Handlon ’10 and Paul Rice ’10 this past spring, the Bulldogs are hoping defensive back Adam Money ’11 can help to keep Yale among the Ivy League’s toughest defenses. Money had a breakout season last year as a cornerback, leading the team in interceptions and forced fumbles »

It may have been only a scrimmage, but the football team came out with the guns blazing against the Union College Dutchmen. A year after defeating Union 36–14 in a pre-season exhibition, the Bulldogs upped the anteSaturday, trouncing the Dutchmen 50–0 at the Yale Bowl. Division III Union, which had gone 8–3 last year, was »

Each year, the Elis’ football captain chooses a slogan for the team’s workout T-shirts. Defensive end and 2010 captain Tom McCarthy’s ’11 pick for this season is simple: “Win.” Nine months since the Bulldogs’ tough 14–10 loss to Harvard at The Game, which featured Yale’s now infamous fourth-and-22 fake punt, the team thinks a more »

Even though the baseball team split its doubleheader with Harvard on Wednesday, the vibe around the Yale clubhouse made it seem as if the Bulldogs had swept their rival. Hours after nearly coming back from being down 13–0 in their 14–12 loss in the first game, the Elis took a commanding 7–0 lead, en route »

It looked like it would be more of the same for the slumping baseball team midway through its doubleheader against Harvard on Saturday, but the Bulldogs responded emphatically to end the day on a high note. After a 7–4 loss to Harvard (14–22, 7–7) increased Yale’s losing streak to six games, the Bulldogs (17–19–1, 4–10 »

The baseball team will try to rebound from its worst week of the season and end its five-game losing streak when Yale hosts archrival Harvard for a four-game homestand this weekend. “It’s fun to beat Harvard because people always ask how you did against them,” second baseman Gant Elmore ’11 said. “It’s a little added »

In its last four games — all losses at Dartmouth — the baseball team scored a combined eight runs. On Wednesday, the Bulldogs (16–18–1, 3–9 Ivy) more than doubled that total in one game, but still ended up losing. Yale fell on the road to struggling cross-town rivals Quinnipiac, 19–18, on a three-run, walk-off home »