Christina Lee, Senior Photographer

With the cancellation of the 2020 football season, 665 days passed between Yale’s 50-43 overtime defeat against the Harvard Crimson and the first game of their fall 2021 campaign.

The inexperienced Team 148 finished 5–5 for the season, ending with a heartbreaking loss to Harvard.

In 2022, Team 149 bounced back and finished the season 8–2, including a win over Harvard that would begin a three-year rivalry winning streak.

“As freshmen, we came in and had great senior leaders who taught us the standard of Yale football,” Andrew Weisz ’25 told the News. “From them, we learned how Yale football should be run. Our first year, we didn’t get the outcome we wanted, but the following year, thanks to the amazing leadership and great captain, we took it to the next level.”

Team 150 got off to a rough start when they fell 49-24 in their home opener against Holy Cross and dropped to Cornell for the first time in seven years. However, Yale soon righted the ship and won six of their last seven games, heading into The Game with a chance to claim a share of their second straight Ivy Championship.

In one of the most exciting bouts of the year, the Bulldogs orchestrated a comeback that included multiple fourth-quarter touchdowns and a huge defensive stop in the final seconds, culminating with Yalies storming the field to celebrate the second straight win over Harvard.

Despite an early-season injury to new starting quarterback Grant Jordan ’25, the Bulldogs secured their first victory over Holy Cross in five years. The following week, the Bulldogs once again lost to a formidable Cornell squad and later fell in an overtime heartbreaker against Dartmouth. The Bulldogs lost their chance to win the Ivy League when they failed to secure a victory over Columbia.

However, Team 151’s offense came alive for the last three weeks of the season. With statement wins against Brown and Princeton, the senior class ended their tenure by racking up a third-straight win against Harvard.