With the recent announcements that Bowdoin and Williams will be canceling all fall sports, the status of the fall football season remains in jeopardy for the Ancient Eight. Ivy League Presidents have been actively discussing the possibilities of an outright cancellation, a shortened Ivy-only fall season or a spring Ivy-only season. We are eagerly anticipating an official announcement from the Ivy League as to what the future may hold this fall.
The Patriot League has already placed restrictions on their out of conference contests, so don’t hold your breath for the Fordham at Hawaii matchup this season.
The Yale Bowl offers quite possibly the most social distancing friendly atmosphere in the entire country given the ample space and limited crowds for non-HYP contests. While the risk to the fans might be low, the true dangers would be for the coaches and Yale employees who interact with the diverse student body on a daily basis (assuming the players have adequate immune systems to fight the virus).
All we can do at this point is to hope and pray to see the Bulldogs in 2020.
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Yale provided the return to school policy today and they are staggering classes. For the Fall Freshman, Junior and Senior classes are allowed to return to school. They will be making a determination on athletic events on July 7th. It doesn’t look promising for fall football at this point.
Actually July 8th is the date
Ivy League has petitioned the NCAA to move football to the spring for a 7 game conference only schedule.
https://nypost.com/2020/07/01/ivy-league-eyes-seven-game-spring-football-season/
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I was getting nostalgic today.? When I was a boy. Yale would fire a cannon, when Yale scored a Td, extra point or kickoff. Who has that cannon.?
Ray or Walt, do you remember that or anyone. They should blow the dust off of that. Fire in the hole Baby…!!!
Go Yale
Gentlemen; the toy cannon is yet another monument gone by the wayside our squad use to have gold striped pants and did not where white away jerseys until the mid-fifties.
Alan Lamar , to transfer grad student.
Good luck to Alan. A very good player whose bad luck with injuries kept him from being a great player
The good ole days, I heard of the gold pants. So Harvard took them . Thank you Old Blue
The pants were actually the color of Golden’s mustard, and the white road uniform jerseys were a result of a rule set by the Ivy League to take place in 1956, the first official Ivy League season. In those days most people had black and white TV only, and it was difficult to tell home team from visitor.
Gold pants during a golden era of Yale football. Here’s a classic picture of one the finest backfields to ever play for the Bulldogs:
https://www.google.com/search?q=yale+football+denny+mcgill&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiN6I7fwLbqAhUDoXIEHZnsB40Q_AUoAnoECAsQBA&biw=1920&bih=859#imgrc=SMLemJ5bwqTLpM
Ivy coaches expect football to be moved to spring.
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/ivy-league-coaches-expect-2020-college-football-season-to-be-moved-to-spring-2021-per-report/
At least it should be a lot warmer for the Yale-Harvard game!
gentlemen; the picture is of our blue 1955 backfield. the next year our squad was spectacular running the table save a fumble marred contest with the red raiders. our starting backfield in 1956 quarterback mr. louks or mr .winterbauer both worthy signal callers; halfbacks mr ward and mr. mcgill and fullback mr. ackerman. this squad was as noteworthy/distinguished as the undefeated 1960 team. the white striped pants surfaced again in 1959 without future change.
I never saw the gold pants, my first Yale game was the Brown game in ’59. I do remember the Harvard blowout in 1957 being on TV, but, of course, that was black and white TV
I kinda expect to see the Ivy’s forgo the 2020 season and reset for 2021. I find that to be the most responsible solution.
I hope they no longer consider spring – it would be too hard on the players eligible for fall of ’21. FOOTBALL BELONGS IN THE FALL!
Assuming that we have no football on the fall, how about a tv deal with NESN to broadcast 8 weeks of “the greatest Ivy League games” – each week featuring a win by one league team. People could vote online for their favorite game and we could have a semi final and a final featuring the teams that get the most votes. I say that acknowledging that I would probably be forced to re-watch the 29-29 tie game from 1968.
I’ll bet last fall’s Y-H would get more votes! ’68 game was a blowout until the last 42 seconds, not so last year’s game.
Well, it was a blowout a few minutes into the 2nd half at 22-3. After that, offense galore as Yale outscored Harvard 47-21
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