Doubters still thinking Grooms’ passing judgement sucks?
He had a great game , He made good decisions with the ball. Even you can see the difference. Come on man
That’s what I’m saying. He rocked.
BB, when he gets to slinging, into double or quadruple coverage. He kills the team.
When he protects the ball , it’s all good. Play like this and Yale wins.
This Brown game is a trap game
We will destroy the RI university known as the color of sh*t. After that, who knows? But I’m at least confident we’ll be competitive in Y-P-H. If we sweep, Princeton will still have to knock off Penn for us to get 3rd crown since 2017.
Penn will lose to Harvard as well a Princeton
Not so fast , one game at a time Cowboy.
Be careful what you wish for.? Brown up on Penn. 14 -0 . Yale can’t over look anybody.
Jackson Hawes #87 made a heck of a block on this TD. He knocked down two players with one block allowing Lindley to score.
Gentlemen; bravo to our blue squad. Number 12 brokered his best pitch The fade down the left sidelines to several different split ends . Hopefully, number 82 did not reinjure himself..
Brown today vs penn is having faculty and staff appreciation day . four free tickets to the game and four free food vouchers for the game at least there putting people in the stands.. How about yale doing the same thing. pick a game and give out free tickets and food vouchers to the police and fire and also to all the hospitals in the area. Then maybe there will be people in the bowl not 300 hundred. as it always is . Does yale have any balls to do this we will see,
A wonderful performance by the Eli’s that justifies optimism for the remaining games.
Brown 24 Penn 0 at the half
All in front of them. Win out and 95 percent chance (at least) of Ivy ring. All you can ask for
100%
Brown 21 Penn 7 4 minutes left in 2nd qtr
Great news! Yale can’t sleep on Brown.
Brown was dressed up as a real team for Halloween. Penn is exposing them. 24-24
Brown retakes the lead 27-24
Brown 34 Penn 31 3rd qtr 1:19 to go!!
Let’s Go Brown
Brown wins 34-31!
Brown Wins!! 34 to 31.!!
Yale controls its own destiny now…if that means anything.
Was not impressed by Yale against Columbia you have to be able to run in this league. Brown will not be an easy out for yale.Brown is throwing the football an ave of 300 yards per game. You know what that means for our DB they better be ready.
Men’s hockey beats Brown 2-0 in their opener.
Generally encouraged by second half of the game. But, I sure hope that Yale can establish run game and sustained drives the rest of the way,. Also, that the defense can continue to play as well as they did vs. Columbia and DB’s clean up broken coverages.
If a team is geared up to stop the run (as Columbia was rightly doing given Yale’s passing performance vs Penn) and is really good at stopping the run (#1 in FCS), then you have to pass to beat them which Yale did. Good coaches game plan week to week based on where an opponent’s weakness is. Yale clearly thought they could get vertical on Columbia and they did. Next week will be a different story.
I see that Yale-Harvard is a sellout. Anyone know what constitutes a sellout is now at Harvard Stadium?
30,323 but I thought it was Lars’s after the renovation
I hate autocorrect. They had renovations. I thought the capacity was lowered to 24,000
If it’s only 24k they should play the game at the Bowl three out of every four years.
When Yale started playing Dartmouth in Hanover in 1971 the original plan was for the game to be at Dartmouth every four years. But when the attendance declined that idea was abandoned. The attendance for the Harvard game is still high enough to make playing more often in the Bowl worthwhile. Not that Harvard would ever agree.
Didn’t Harvard Stadium used to be 40,000? I assume they contracted the stands recently so the sidelines would finally be wider. (I recall reading that the 1905 White House confab with Teddy Roosevelt and football’s leaders — convened to solve what had become unacceptable levels of serious injury and death — considered widening the field to reduce baneful pile-ups, but since Harvard’s sidelines were so small that was impossible… leading to approval of the forward pass [albeit highly restricted at first], causing a brief implementation of the field layout literally being a gridiron pattern, but that’s another story).
In any event, 24,000 is ridiculous for The Game. Have some more of them at Fenway.
Harvard used to put temporary bleacher seats at field level at the closed end of the horseshoe. My wife and I sat on those in 1984. Not sure how much that raised capacity or if they still do that.
I know that way, way, back they had constructed large metal stands in front of the scoreboard.
That 24,000 figure came from a renovation announced about 6 years ago that ?apparently? never took place. I can’t even find much about it on the web; it’s like it was erased from existence, or part of a multi-person hallucination (Mandela effect).
Nothing significant has been done to the stadium since we last visited in 2016. Unless they spaced the seat numbers out with an extra 6″ between each “seat” I fully expect the place still holds 30,000+.
30,000 is correct
I too remember the bleacher seats at the open end of the stadium in 1968.
It was always the most uncomfortable stadium by far with almost all of the seats basically no more than concrete
Best seats are up under the roof in the bleachers on a windy day
There was so much interest, and a lack of enough tickets to meet demand in 1968, that the game was shown on CCTV in the New Haven Arena. That’s where my friends and I watched.
Speaking of the Arena, I have great memories from there.
Number one was the first Ali-Frazier fight in 1971 on CCTV. Still the most electric atmosphere I ever felt at a sporting event. I can’t imagine what it was like at Madison Square Garden.
I also saw several concerts there including Jethro Tull and Frank Zappa.
And, of course, New Haven Blades hockey (or more accurately brawls).
That erased “renovation” was the stated (or only implied?) reason for the 2018 move to Fenway, which was, come to think of it, never wholly explained. Wonder what all went on in the background.
Yes, I meant to mention that, Northbounder! The “excuse” for moving The Game to Fenway in ’18 was because there was going to be construction equipment on site at the Stadium. They claimed they’d be able to work around that construction for the rest of their ’18 games (small crowds), but not for the full house for Yale. After all that, not a lick of work was apparently performed. It does make you wonder what transpired. As I recall, there was supposed to be an expanded press box with suites and athletic department administrative offices added, raising up from behind the outside of the home side of the stadium. I think they were going to widen the space allotted to each “seat” (i.e., cold concrete slab), which would explain much of the capacity reduction. It’s one thing for a project to get shelved, what’s odd is how Harvard treats it like it was never announced in the first place.
Heads up The Yale Brown Football Game will be on NESN Saturday at Noon
Not on ESPN+?
In addition too
Michigan State Football season should be suspended. If you wanna send a real message..?
Yale-Harvard game to start at noon on ESPNU
Just to close the loop on the Harvard Stadium sidebar discussion — I found a 2017 article that quietly mentions that the planned renovation was scrapped as too expensive (with that endowment?!). https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/12/8/hy-tailgates-fenway/
Just to close the loop on the Harvard Stadium renovation topic, I finally found a 2017 article that rather quietly announces that the renovations were scrapped due to cost. Too expensive, with that endowment?! https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/12/8/hy-tailgates-fenway/
Nice to see that some students are enthusiastic about the game (“We spent two hours on this website before we got tickets. I skipped class to do this.”) even though most probably don’t plan to enter the gates. https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2022/11/02/yale-harvard-tickets-sell-out-after-accidental-early-release/
Typical Yale bungling of the on-sale, of course.
And, interesting to note the final paragraph states: “The official capacity of Harvard Stadium is 25,884.”
Typical
A couple thoughts:
– Thanks for finding that Crimson piece. Nice to have some closure on it – although the one comment on the article does help leave the door open. Nothing like a good cliff hanger.
– I remember reading that a consequence of the HS renovation would be removal of the seating behind the pillars. Haven’t been back there since the 2016 game (wild, really). Don’t know if that happened regardless, but if so, could explain the drop in capacity.
– Good on the students, and if they’re buying (as the YDN article notes rather obliquely, Harvard doesn’t make those tickets free), I bet they’ll show. Even if it’s a 6 year-old data point, the student section ended up full (maybe in the second quarter, but it got there) in 2016 for a much worse team. Though I imagine team quality and away-game Game attendance in the 21st century is in general rather uncorrelated.
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Doubters still thinking Grooms’ passing judgement sucks?
He had a great game , He made good decisions with the ball. Even you can see the difference. Come on man
That’s what I’m saying. He rocked.
BB, when he gets to slinging, into double or quadruple coverage. He kills the team.
When he protects the ball , it’s all good. Play like this and Yale wins.
This Brown game is a trap game
We will destroy the RI university known as the color of sh*t. After that, who knows? But I’m at least confident we’ll be competitive in Y-P-H. If we sweep, Princeton will still have to knock off Penn for us to get 3rd crown since 2017.
Penn will lose to Harvard as well a Princeton
Not so fast , one game at a time Cowboy.
Be careful what you wish for.? Brown up on Penn. 14 -0 . Yale can’t over look anybody.
Jackson Hawes #87 made a heck of a block on this TD. He knocked down two players with one block allowing Lindley to score.
https://twitter.com/yalefootball/status/1586164325273595905?s=20&t=FegYlgFTOlm7X2jEluvZ6Q
Gentlemen; bravo to our blue squad. Number 12 brokered his best pitch The fade down the left sidelines to several different split ends . Hopefully, number 82 did not reinjure himself..
Brown today vs penn is having faculty and staff appreciation day . four free tickets to the game and four free food vouchers for the game at least there putting people in the stands.. How about yale doing the same thing. pick a game and give out free tickets and food vouchers to the police and fire and also to all the hospitals in the area. Then maybe there will be people in the bowl not 300 hundred. as it always is . Does yale have any balls to do this we will see,
A wonderful performance by the Eli’s that justifies optimism for the remaining games.
Brown 24 Penn 0 at the half
All in front of them. Win out and 95 percent chance (at least) of Ivy ring. All you can ask for
100%
Brown 21 Penn 7 4 minutes left in 2nd qtr
Great news! Yale can’t sleep on Brown.
Brown was dressed up as a real team for Halloween. Penn is exposing them. 24-24
Brown retakes the lead 27-24
Brown 34 Penn 31 3rd qtr 1:19 to go!!
Let’s Go Brown
Brown wins 34-31!
Brown Wins!! 34 to 31.!!
Yale controls its own destiny now…if that means anything.
Was not impressed by Yale against Columbia you have to be able to run in this league. Brown will not be an easy out for yale.Brown is throwing the football an ave of 300 yards per game. You know what that means for our DB they better be ready.
Men’s hockey beats Brown 2-0 in their opener.
Generally encouraged by second half of the game. But, I sure hope that Yale can establish run game and sustained drives the rest of the way,. Also, that the defense can continue to play as well as they did vs. Columbia and DB’s clean up broken coverages.
If a team is geared up to stop the run (as Columbia was rightly doing given Yale’s passing performance vs Penn) and is really good at stopping the run (#1 in FCS), then you have to pass to beat them which Yale did. Good coaches game plan week to week based on where an opponent’s weakness is. Yale clearly thought they could get vertical on Columbia and they did. Next week will be a different story.
I see that Yale-Harvard is a sellout. Anyone know what constitutes a sellout is now at Harvard Stadium?
30,323 but I thought it was Lars’s after the renovation
I hate autocorrect. They had renovations. I thought the capacity was lowered to 24,000
If it’s only 24k they should play the game at the Bowl three out of every four years.
When Yale started playing Dartmouth in Hanover in 1971 the original plan was for the game to be at Dartmouth every four years. But when the attendance declined that idea was abandoned. The attendance for the Harvard game is still high enough to make playing more often in the Bowl worthwhile. Not that Harvard would ever agree.
Didn’t Harvard Stadium used to be 40,000? I assume they contracted the stands recently so the sidelines would finally be wider. (I recall reading that the 1905 White House confab with Teddy Roosevelt and football’s leaders — convened to solve what had become unacceptable levels of serious injury and death — considered widening the field to reduce baneful pile-ups, but since Harvard’s sidelines were so small that was impossible… leading to approval of the forward pass [albeit highly restricted at first], causing a brief implementation of the field layout literally being a gridiron pattern, but that’s another story).
In any event, 24,000 is ridiculous for The Game. Have some more of them at Fenway.
Harvard used to put temporary bleacher seats at field level at the closed end of the horseshoe. My wife and I sat on those in 1984. Not sure how much that raised capacity or if they still do that.
I know that way, way, back they had constructed large metal stands in front of the scoreboard.
That 24,000 figure came from a renovation announced about 6 years ago that ?apparently? never took place. I can’t even find much about it on the web; it’s like it was erased from existence, or part of a multi-person hallucination (Mandela effect).
Nothing significant has been done to the stadium since we last visited in 2016. Unless they spaced the seat numbers out with an extra 6″ between each “seat” I fully expect the place still holds 30,000+.
30,000 is correct
I too remember the bleacher seats at the open end of the stadium in 1968.
It was always the most uncomfortable stadium by far with almost all of the seats basically no more than concrete
Best seats are up under the roof in the bleachers on a windy day
There was so much interest, and a lack of enough tickets to meet demand in 1968, that the game was shown on CCTV in the New Haven Arena. That’s where my friends and I watched.
Speaking of the Arena, I have great memories from there.
Number one was the first Ali-Frazier fight in 1971 on CCTV. Still the most electric atmosphere I ever felt at a sporting event. I can’t imagine what it was like at Madison Square Garden.
I also saw several concerts there including Jethro Tull and Frank Zappa.
And, of course, New Haven Blades hockey (or more accurately brawls).
That erased “renovation” was the stated (or only implied?) reason for the 2018 move to Fenway, which was, come to think of it, never wholly explained. Wonder what all went on in the background.
Yes, I meant to mention that, Northbounder! The “excuse” for moving The Game to Fenway in ’18 was because there was going to be construction equipment on site at the Stadium. They claimed they’d be able to work around that construction for the rest of their ’18 games (small crowds), but not for the full house for Yale. After all that, not a lick of work was apparently performed. It does make you wonder what transpired. As I recall, there was supposed to be an expanded press box with suites and athletic department administrative offices added, raising up from behind the outside of the home side of the stadium. I think they were going to widen the space allotted to each “seat” (i.e., cold concrete slab), which would explain much of the capacity reduction. It’s one thing for a project to get shelved, what’s odd is how Harvard treats it like it was never announced in the first place.
Just to put a wrap on this sidebar…
A Harvard Crimson article that mentions the renovations not taking place for financial reasons. (What’s their endowment, again?)
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/12/8/hy-tailgates-fenway/
Five renderings here of what it would’ve looked like:
http://www.daiq.com/harvardstadium.html
Heads up The Yale Brown Football Game will be on NESN Saturday at Noon
Not on ESPN+?
In addition too
Michigan State Football season should be suspended. If you wanna send a real message..?
Yale-Harvard game to start at noon on ESPNU
Just to close the loop on the Harvard Stadium sidebar discussion — I found a 2017 article that quietly mentions that the planned renovation was scrapped as too expensive (with that endowment?!).
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/12/8/hy-tailgates-fenway/
At this page, there’s 5 renderings that show what the addition to the Stadium would’ve looked like:
http://www.daiq.com/harvardstadium.html
Just to close the loop on the Harvard Stadium renovation topic, I finally found a 2017 article that rather quietly announces that the renovations were scrapped due to cost. Too expensive, with that endowment?!
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/12/8/hy-tailgates-fenway/
This architect’s site has some pictures to scroll through, showing what the addition would’ve looked like.
http://www.daiq.com/harvardstadium.html
Nice to see that some students are enthusiastic about the game (“We spent two hours on this website before we got tickets. I skipped class to do this.”) even though most probably don’t plan to enter the gates.
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2022/11/02/yale-harvard-tickets-sell-out-after-accidental-early-release/
Typical Yale bungling of the on-sale, of course.
And, interesting to note the final paragraph states: “The official capacity of Harvard Stadium is 25,884.”
Typical
A couple thoughts:
– Thanks for finding that Crimson piece. Nice to have some closure on it – although the one comment on the article does help leave the door open. Nothing like a good cliff hanger.
– I remember reading that a consequence of the HS renovation would be removal of the seating behind the pillars. Haven’t been back there since the 2016 game (wild, really). Don’t know if that happened regardless, but if so, could explain the drop in capacity.
– Good on the students, and if they’re buying (as the YDN article notes rather obliquely, Harvard doesn’t make those tickets free), I bet they’ll show. Even if it’s a 6 year-old data point, the student section ended up full (maybe in the second quarter, but it got there) in 2016 for a much worse team. Though I imagine team quality and away-game Game attendance in the 21st century is in general rather uncorrelated.
Looks like there’s still seats in the colonnade:
https://gocrimson.com/galleries/football/football-vs-merrimack/harvard-football-defeats-merri/2077/111611
https://gocrimson.com/galleries/football/football-vs-merrimack/harvard-football-defeats-merri/2077/111621
Looks like there’s still seats in the colonnade area:
https://gocrimson.com/galleries/football/football-vs-merrimack/harvard-football-defeats-merri/2077/111611
BGA STATED THIS MORNING THAT OSO HAS ENTERED THE TRANSFER PORTAL ,
Makes sense. His eligibility at Yale is over and with a season ending injury this year he hopefully can rehab and have another chance to play
Oso, thank you for your time at Yale. To bigger and better situations.
Off topic but whatever happened to Zion Dayne, Yale top recruit in class of 2020?
Wasn’t dressed but travelled to the last game? Don’t know if he’s injured.