FALL SPORTS
MAYA SWEEDLER
FOOTBALL: A brief history of The Game

As of last year, Yale leads the all-time series 65–57–8. However, the Bulldogs have fallen on rough times as of late — the Elis have not won since 2006, when they triumphed over the Cantabs 34–1.

November 21, 2014

JAMES BADAS
FOOTBALL: Tyler Varga, one-of-a-kind running back

When one imagines a running back with a bodybuilder’s physique storming down the gridiron with the balance and agility of a downhill skier, one can get a sense of the nightmare Ivy League defenses have dealt with in preparing for running back Tyler Varga ’15 the past three seasons.

November 21, 2014

ASHLEY WU
FOOTBALL: Roberts rips through playbook

Yale has leaned heavily on its offense all season en route to its current 8–1 record, and quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 will look to lead the team’s most prolific offense in decades to victory this weekend.

November 21, 2014

GREG CAMERON
GameDay host talks Harvard-Yale

With GameDay coming to Cambridge for the 131st edition of The Game, the News talked with Chris Fowler about Saturday and the related festivities.

November 20, 2014

NADER RASTEGAR
CROSS COUNTRY: Elis battle at NCAA Northeast Championship

The Yale men and women’s cross country teams captured seventh and 10th place respectively at NCAA Division I Northeast Regional Championships.

November 20, 2014

MAYA SWEEDLER
The return and rise of Ciotti

Larry Ciotti was the first football coach Daniel Hand High School ever hired. In 1970, the Madison, Connecticut school hired Ciotti — then only four years removed from a college football career at Southern Connecticut State — to build its football program.

November 20, 2014

MATTHEW STONE
FOOTBALL: Tight ends healthy, ready for Harvard

As they march into the biggest weekend of their season, the Elis have more than just their eight wins, five-game winning streak and undefeated record on the road to give them momentum. They also have their two veteran tight ends back.

November 20, 2014

DREW MEGERIAN
FOOTBALL: Conditioned freshman class prepares for The Game

As The Game approaches, Eli freshmen are gearing up, ready to bring the heat that has powered Yale to eight victories this year.

November 19, 2014

MARC CUGNON
MEN’S SOCCER: Bulldogs drop 13th game of season

In Brian Tompkins’s last match as Yale soccer’s head coach, the Elis took on the 2014 Ivy League Co-Champions, Princeton. As they have nearly every time this season, the Bulldogs fell short.

November 19, 2014

GREG CAMERON
FOOTBALL: RC3 — a motivational force

The Yale football team’s offense has shown fans in its 8–1 start that if a team wants to put up 43.0 points a game and own the highest-gaining offense in the entire NCAA Football Championship Subdivision, it is going to need a diversity of weapons.

November 18, 2014

JULIA YAO
FOOTBALL: Yale’s “hardest hitter” on the rise

The Yale football team has enjoyed success this year largely due to its prolific offense, which ranks first in the Football Championship Subdivision in total yards per game and fourth in points per game.

November 18, 2014