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Athletics Archive
Edge of Greatness
by Carlo Rotella '94PhD
July/August 2004
For a year and a half, Yale fencer Sada Jacobson focused every moment of her life on a single, consuming goal. At the summer Olympics in Athens, it would all come down to a few furious minutes.
Sporting Life
May/June 2004
The pleasure and pain of cycling forr Yale & Eli broadcaet team goes to "Frozen Four."
Sporting Life
March/April 2004
Women's squash topple Trinity & old magic proves elusive for basketball team.
Rites of Autumn
by Charles McGrath '68
January/February 2004
The editor of the the New York Times Book Revierw on going to The Game in middle age .
The High Cost of Winning
by Paul Steiger '64
September/October 2003
A new study charges that the Ivies are corrupting their mission by aggressively
recruiting athletes. The data are compelling enough to shake the faith of
even a diehard sports fan.
Red Sox and a Blue Leader
by George Sullivan
May 2003
Theo Epstein '95, the new general manager of the Boston baseball team, is
the latest Yale man to run the Red Sox.
Historic Feet
by Carl Bialik '01
February 2003
The women's soccer team's first NCAA tournament appearance tops the list
of achievements in our Fall Sports Review.
Old Yale: History on
Ice
by Judith Ann Schiff
February 2003
More than a century after Yale and Johns Hopkins took to the ice in Baltimore,
the precise date that marks the collegiate inauguration of the sport in this
country remains a matter of contention.
Old Yale: Derby Day
by Judith Ann Schiff
Summer 2002
When the Yale crowd talked of going to Derby Day in the 1920s, 1930s, and
1940s, they did not mean the horse races at Churchill or Epsom Downs. Instead,
Yale's premier social event of the spring focused on the boat races in nearby
Derby, Connecticut.
Old Yale: Yale and the
Origins of Intercollegiate Baseball
by Judith Ann Schiff
May 2002
A team from Yale played in the first truly modern intercollegiate baseball
game.
How 'bout Those Guys?
by Carl Bialik '01
May 2002
From out of nowhere, a young and inexperienced men's basketball team emerged
to grab a share of the Ivy League title this year, winning fans on and off
the campus and promising even better things next year.
Old Yale: John Hay Whitney
by Judith Ann Schiff
April 2002
The stroke of the university crew in junior and senior years, "Jock" Whitney
'26 became part of crew history by inspiring the coining of the term "crew
cut."
An Autumn of Discontent
by Jeremy Licht '04
February 2002
From field hockey to football, storng starts and disappointing endings were
the stuff of the fall sports season.
Racing by Design
by Mark Alden Branch
April 2001
The Gilder Boathouse, which was dedicated last fall, marks a bold departure
from recent Yale architecture.
Old Yale: Fore!
by Judith Ann Schiff
April 2001
Yale's golf course was one of the places where the sport got its American
start.
A Gladiator Class?
by James L. Shulman '87, '93PhD & William G. Bowen
April 2001
College athletics may boost school spirit, but an overemphasis on athletic
success is having a corrosive effect on academic values.
Great Moments in Yale Sports
March 2001
You can't win them all, but Yale has had more than its share of victories.
Even some of the defeats have become the stuff of athletic legend.
The Best for Last
by Carl Bialik '01 & David Goldenberg '01
February 2001
The Ivy title proved out of reach, but the football team capped the fall
sports season with its third straight win over Harvard.
Old Yale: Bringing on
the "Bruisers"
by Judith Ann Schiff
December 2000
Basketball began in Springfield, but the five-man team was a Yale invention.
Maybe.
The Game, The Catch,
The Title
by Albert Chen '00
February 2000
Quarterback Joe Walland rose from his sickbed to help beat Harvard, capping
a fall sports season dominated by the return of Eli football.
All About Attitude
by Bruce Fellman
February 2000
A creeping conviction that Yale athletics could survive by being "good enough" has
been replaced by a dedication to becoming the best.
Old Yale: Levi Jackson:
Hometown Hero
by Judith Ann Schiff
October 1999
The first African-American to captain a Yale football team continued his
leadership off the field.
Yes-ssss!
by Matthew Goldenberg '99
February 1999
From football to field hockey, Yale's fall sports teams showed a new strength
in a season capped by a gridiron victory over Harvard.
Old Yale: The Greatest
College Cheer
by Judith Ann Schiff
May 1998
"Brek-ek-ek-ex ko-ax, KO-ax" leapt from the pages of Aristophanes -- and spurred
the baseball team to a championship season.
Amazin' Blades
by Ben & Charles McGrath
May 1998
Despite early predictions of yet another dismal year, the mens' hockey team
surprised its critics and enjoyed the best season ever, finishing first in
the ECAC and drawing a bid to play in the NCAA championships. A father-and-son
team recount a campaign to savor, long after the final whistle.
Ouch!
by Zak Pines '00
February 1998
Despite a solid season for men's and women's soccer and most other sports,
the struggles of Jack Siedlecki's first Eli football team made it a tough
fall for Bulldog fans.
Can Jack Siedlecki "Get
It Done"?
by Randall Beach
October 1997
After 32 years under the guidance of Carm Cozza, the Yale football team has
a new leader. His specialty is turning losers into winners.
Carm's Last Call
by Randall Beach
November 1996
When he retires as Yale's head football coach at the end of this season,
Carmen Cozza will leave behind a record distinguished as much by personal
mentorship as by gridiron victories.
Scholarly Athletics
by Bruce Fellman
February 1996
The launch of a $100 million renovation of the Payne Whitney Gymnasium has
refocused attention on the role of athletics at an institution whose emphasis
is on mind over muscle.
Play Ball!
by Randall Beach
December 1995
Yale's venerable baseball stadium is getting a new lease on life as part
of an innovative deal with a professional franchise.
Playing for Yale
by David Galt '66
December 1995
An aficionado takes a look at Yale on board.
The New A.D.
by Tom Verde
November 1994
Tom Beckett is a former varsity athlete who played professional baseball
before helping Stanford rekindle its athletic flame. Can he do the same for
Yale?
Women Athletes
Take the Spotlight
by Marc Wortman
November 1993
The renovation of the Lapham Field House to accommodate women and men equally
represents a milestone in Yale's acceptance of women as full-fledged athletes.
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