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Wednesday, November 9. 2011

College sports

Yale is responsible for introducing collegiate sports in the US, at first with rowing teams in 1843. And Yale's Walter Camp, of course, essentially invented the game of football.


When Yale Bowl was completed in 1914, it was the largest stadium built since the Roman Colosseum.


Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 13:45 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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Is Patrick Witt going to play for Yale or is he going for that Rhodes Scholarship?
#1 Tom Francis on 2011-11-09 14:13 (Reply)
Too bad northeast no longer produces football talent.
#2 DrTorch on 2011-11-09 14:56 (Reply)
Really?

Chris Hovan, William Green, Marc Colombo, Mathias Kiwanuka, Matt Ryan, Gosder Cherilus, B.J. Raji - Boston College

Ryan Fitzpatrick, Matt Birk, Desmond Bryant - Harvard

Nate Lawrie - Yale

Colin Cloherty, Zak DeOssie, Sean Morey, Paul Raymond - Brown

Steve Cargile, Jeff Otis - Columbia

Kevin Booth, Zak Keasey, Dennis Norman - Princeton

Will Beatty, Tyvon Branch, Donald Brown, Darius Butler, Marcus Easley, Dan Orlovsky, Anthony Sherman, Donald Thomas - Connecticut

And that's just off the top of my little teeny tiny brain.

Want me to keep going? :>)
#3 Tom Francis on 2011-11-09 15:33 (Reply)
unfortunately now it's falling apart!
#4 kab on 2011-11-09 15:42 (Reply)
I thought The Rose Bowl was built earlier than 1922. Hmm...seems that the Yale Bowl began a building frenzy for college football powerhouses.
#5 Dangerous Dean on 2011-11-09 17:34 (Reply)

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