Fall Sports

The Yale men’s and women’s golf teams closed their fall seasons this past weekend with fourth and fifth place finishes, respectively. Difficult final days of play for both teams landed them both in the middle of the pack. The men’s team competed in the Ivy League Matchplay Tournament, held this year at TPC Jasna Polana »

Both the heavyweight and lightweight crew teams posted strong results this past weekend at the Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston, Mass. One of the lightweight fours had a particularly stellar finish, clinching the second spot in the race. The 48th annual regatta, the world’s largest two-day rowing event, brought together over 9,000 athletes »

On a beautiful fall day in Boston, Yale women’s crew posted two strong finishes at the 48th annual Head of the Charles Regatta this past weekend. The club eight earned a first-place finish, while the championship four out-stroked all other collegiate crews, finishing third overall. However, the championship eight for the Elis finished 14th overall »

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 »

In the 88th minute of Saturday’s men’s soccer game, forward Jenner Fox ’14 found himself on the right side of Penn’s penalty area facing only one defender and the goalie. As the defender stepped toward Fox, he crossed the ball into the middle of the area to forward Peter Jacobson ’14, whose one-touch finish past »

With about a mile left in the men’s race at Friday’s Central Connecticut State University Mini Meet, Ryan Laemel ’14 ran behind a pack of Yale runners. But knowing that the top three Bulldog finishers would earn spots on Yale’s team at next weekend’s Ivy League Heptagonal Championships, Laemel moved up past his teammates and »

Emotions ran high this weekend as team members and alumnae of Yale’s first female varsity sport gathered for a celebration of the field hockey team’s 40th anniversary. The Bulldogs fell to Penn 3–2 on Saturday despite the loud cheers and packed stands at Johnson Field. Hoping to break even on Sunday with a win against »

A header and a well-placed cross inside the six-yard box helped Penn to top the women’s soccer team 2–0 at home. A week after picking up their first Ivy win at Cornell, the Bulldogs (6–7, 1–4 Ivy) dropped their conference game against the Quakers (8–5–1, 4–1 Ivy) at Reese Stadium Saturday evening. Penn’s quick attack »

The volleyball team suddenly has some breathing room at the top of the Ivy standings. Following a 3–0 victory over Brown and Princeton’s 3–2 loss to Penn this weekend, the Bulldogs increased their lead over the second-place Tigers to two matches. Just 10 days ago, the two squads were tied atop the Ancient Eight standings »

Olympic rower Charlie Cole ’07 is more accustomed to winning awards by plunging his oar into the water than by online voting. But the talented athlete, who won the bronze medal in the men’s four at the 2012 London Olympics, is in the running to become USRowing’s Fan’s Choice Award “National Team Rower of the »

YDN Sports Editor Eugena Jung ’14 sits down with heavyweight crew’s Owen Symington ’14 to talk about everything from daily workouts to his Aussie Olympic dreams. Stay tuned for more TimeOuts from the Sports desk!

Hold on to the football: In the two games the team has played this season, Yale has coughed the ball up nine times. An early interception and fumble gave Cornell all the momentum in the Elis’ blowout loss to the Big Red last week. In quarterback Eric Williams’ ’16 defense, he is only two games »