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  • Throwback Thursday: movable feast

    A classic tailgate picnic, seen on a football program from 1956. It’ll be a beautiful day for tailgating and football on Saturday, when the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 13 2022 08:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: football in wartime

    Yale starts its 150th anniversary football season this Saturday at Holy Cross. Eighty years ago, as seen on our November 1942 cover, football... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 15 2022 08:12am

  • Throwback Thursday: first team

    This fall, Yale celebrates the 150th anniversary of its first football game—a 3–0 victory over Columbia in New Haven on November 16... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 11 2022 08:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: old-school football

    As Team 148 prepares to play Harvard at the Bowl on Saturday, here’s a look at Team 23 from 1896. The team finished with a 13–1 record... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 18 2021 08:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: Cozza’s last stand

    Twenty-five years ago, we marked the retirement of Carm Cozza, head coach of the Yale football team from 1965 through 1996, with a cover story.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 21 2021 08:05am

  • Throwback Thursday: coaches of yore

    Football will be back this fall after a year’s absence, starting with Holy Cross on September 18 and ending with The Game at The Bowl on... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 22 2021 09:30am

  • Happy Thanksgiving to all!

    Back in 1890, football was part of Thanksgiving at Yale, as seen in Frederic Remington’s painting (from the Yale Art Gallery) of that... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 25 2020 06:30am

  • Throwback Thursday: Yalies of yore

    Missing Yale football this season? Here's a page from our archives featuring the team from 125 years ago. The 1895 squad finished 13–0–2... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 22 2020 08:27am

  • Carm Cozza, 1930–2018

    Carmen Louis Cozza, who was Yale’s head football coach from 1965 to 1996, died yesterday at age 87. One of his former players, Rich Diana... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 5 2018 09:58am

  • Throwback Thursday: one for the ages

    It is likely that there are players on this year’s football team who were not yet walking—much less tackling—when Yale last beat... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 16 2017 08:25am

  • Game plan

    Spotted on an Old Campus bulletin board this morning: advice for The Game this weekend. Have anything to add? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 15 2017 10:47am

  • Throwback Thursday: uniforms

    Seventy-five years ago this month, Yale had the war on its mind, but not to the complete exclusion of football. (That’s Handsome Dan V, by the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 2 2017 01:46pm

  • Cold morning, hot ticket

    With temperatures in the 30s, students formed a line as long as a football field yesterday morning outside Ray Tompkins House in hope of getting tickets to... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 19 2014 11:04am

  • Throwback Thursday: pre-pigskin picnic

    On Saturday, the football team plays its last home game of the season against Princeton, finishing off a season-long celebration of the Yale... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 13 2014 10:35am