Yale and Maine have a football history

[bulldog10jw]

http://sportzedge.com/2015/10/14/maine-was-the-first-visiting-team-to-lose-in-the-yale-bowl-100-years-later-is-seeking-its-initial-victory-over-yale/

With the Yale football team going on the road to face the University of Maine this Saturday, we take note that this year marks the 100th anniversary of Yale’s first victory in the Yale Bowl, which coincidentally was also against another Maine squad of several generations ago.

[Bogus Megapardus]

Yale is 7-0-1 against Maine. This appears to be Yale's first trip to Orono for football.

The first Maine-Yale game, played on October 4, 1913, resulted in a 0-0 tie. That game pre-dated the Bowl. Where would it have been played?

[Bogus Megapardus]

http://sportzedge.com/2015/10/14/maine-was-the-first-visiting-team-to-lose-in-the-yale-bowl-100-years-later-is-seeking-its-initial-victory-over-yale/


The first [Yale Bowl] game in 1915 was against the Black Bears, following the custom
of Yale schedule makers in that era to begin with an intentionally weak opponent.

Sounds like bulletin board material to me . . . xnodx

[Lehigh Football Nation]

The first [Yale Bowl] game in 1915 was against the Black Bears, following the custom
of Yale schedule makers in that era to begin with an intentionally weak opponent.

Sounds like bulletin board material to me . . . xnodx

Kinda like Lafayette and Harvard now. Oh, wait, nowadays it's Harvard's custom to start with three intentionally weak OOC opponents. Carry on.

[Bogus Megapardus]

Kinda like Lafayette and Harvard now. Oh, wait, nowadays it's Harvard's custom to start with three intentionally weak OOC opponents. Carry on.

Harvard is our Homecoming game this year. For Homecoming, aren't you supposed to schedule an intentionally weak . . . never mind. xsmhx

[bulldog10jw]

The first Maine-Yale game, played on October 4, 1913, resulted in a 0-0 tie. That game pre-dated the Bowl. Where would it have been played?

Yale's "stadium" before the Bowl was called Yale Field and was located where the current baseball stadium sits, opposite the Bowl, on the other side of Derby Ave.

[bulldog10jw]

Yale Field

http://www.footballstudyhall.com/college-football-history/2013/6/6/4404580/princeton-vs-yale-1903

[biobengal]

Yale Field

http://www.footballstudyhall.com/college-football-history/2013/6/6/4404580/princeton-vs-yale-1903

Thank you, a great video and a window in to how this game was played.... and the things that passed for entertainment >110 years ago. :D

[ccd494]

Kinda like Lafayette and Harvard now. Oh, wait, nowadays it's Harvard's custom to start with three intentionally weak OOC opponents. Carry on.

Let's look at headlines around the world:

The Times of India: "INDIA BACKS PHILIPPINES ON SOUTH CHINA SEA ROW AND ITS EFFECT ON LEHIGH'S STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE"
Asahi Shimbun: "PUTIN'S VISIT TO JAPAN PUT ON ICE, MAY RESCHEDULE AT LAFAYETTE"
Mail & Guardian (South Africa): "ZUMA SUSPENDS POLICE COMMISSIONER RIAH PHIYEGA, MAY NOT HAVE MET AI REQUIREMENTS"
BBC: "JERUSALEM SEES ATTACKS DESPITE CHECKS, HOW THIS COMPARES TO BUCKNELL'S RUN GAME"

[UNHWildcat18]

Let's look at headlines around the world:

The Times of India: "INDIA BACKS PHILIPPINES ON SOUTH CHINA SEA ROW AND ITS EFFECT ON LEHIGH'S STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE"
Asahi Shimbun: "PUTIN'S VISIT TO JAPAN PUT ON ICE, MAY RESCHEDULE AT LAFAYETTE"
Mail & Guardian (South Africa): "ZUMA SUSPENDS POLICE COMMISSIONER RIAH PHIYEGA, MAY NOT HAVE MET AI REQUIREMENTS"
BBC: "JERUSALEM SEES ATTACKS DESPITE CHECKS, HOW THIS COMPARES TO BUCKNELL'S RUN GAME"

LOL. Maine should win this by 17

[Lehigh Football Nation]

Let's look at headlines around the world:

The Times of India: "INDIA BACKS PHILIPPINES ON SOUTH CHINA SEA ROW AND ITS EFFECT ON LEHIGH'S STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE"
Asahi Shimbun: "PUTIN'S VISIT TO JAPAN PUT ON ICE, MAY RESCHEDULE AT LAFAYETTE"
Mail & Guardian (South Africa): "ZUMA SUSPENDS POLICE COMMISSIONER RIAH PHIYEGA, MAY NOT HAVE MET AI REQUIREMENTS"
BBC: "JERUSALEM SEES ATTACKS DESPITE CHECKS, HOW THIS COMPARES TO BUCKNELL'S RUN GAME"

You forgot:

International Herald Tribune: "ANGELA MERKEL REBUFFS GREEK DEBT PLAN; BLAMES TALKS FAILURE ON LEOPARDS LACK OF DEPTH"

[Bogus Megapardus]

Yale Field

http://www.footballstudyhall.com/college-football-history/2013/6/6/4404580/princeton-vs-yale-1903

I love that video. I recall seeing it a couple of years ago. That was a true "sporting contest," which must have been quite a curiosity for all those folks attending in their finest garb of the day. One remarkable thing is the positioning and the sight lines taken by the field officials - very similar to today's game. And of course the speed with which those players scrambled into formation and snapped the ball would have made modern no-huddle offenses look slow by comparison.

Given the immense popularity of the spectacle it's pretty easy to see why Yale commissioned the construction of the Bowl. I wonder if they could have imagined the endurance of college football a hundred years later.

Incidentally, I see that there were a total of 3,098 students attending Yale for the 1903-04 academic year, according to the Yale Book of Numbers, 1701-1976 (http://oir.yale.edu/1701-1976-yale-book-numbers#A). That's quite a bit larger than I might have guessed.

[Bogus Megapardus]

Yale's "stadium" before the Bowl was called Yale Field and was located where the current baseball stadium sits, opposite the Bowl, on the other side of Derby Ave.

So if I drive down Derby Avenue from the Wilbur Cross, it would have been on the right hand side, before crossing the river into New Haven? Somehow (I don't know why) I imagined the games being played in the middle of the campus proper somewhere.

[McNeese75]

5 Dimes says Maine by 2 1/2 xnodx

[bulldog10jw]

5 Dimes says Maine by 2 1/2 xnodx

Isn't that about the number of points you give for being the home team?

[McNeese75]

Possibly, I am NOT a sports book guru by any means

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[KPSUL]

Isn't that about the number of points you give for being the home team?

No, those are the odds of Yale not even finding Orono Maine on Saturday.

[bulldog10jw]

No, those are the odds of Yale not even finding Orono Maine on Saturday.

Certainly possible. Has the sun set for the last time up there not to be seen again until spring?


Playing at Maine on Saturday will be the most northern place Yale has played. The previous was Madison, Wisconsin, in the 1940s.

[Lehigh Football Nation]

No, those are the odds of Yale not even finding Orono Maine on Saturday.

Pretty sure they won't be able to miss it.

http://images-cdn.moviepilot.com/image/upload/c_fill,h_332,w_535/t_mp_quality/misery-the-7-best-horror-movies-to-watch-during-winter-jpeg-213224.jpg

http://cdn.bloody-disgusting.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/misery1990imagegallery5-620x400.jpg

[bulldog10jw]

Pretty sure they won't be able to miss it.

There is a backup plan in case they get lost on the way up there.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0U7-PWrWoSQ/TuTFUu1gIuI/AAAAAAAAA7A/-QMGH6mqIyk/s1600/105.jpg

[bulldog10jw]

http://sportzedge.com/2015/10/15/yale-offense-looks-like-mash-unit-heading-to-maine/

Yale offense looks like MASH unit heading to Maine

[Bisonator]

Yale Field

http://www.footballstudyhall.com/college-football-history/2013/6/6/4404580/princeton-vs-yale-1903

Ha here I thought the hurry up no huddle offense was a fairly recent strategy but it appears to have much older roots. :)

[UNIFanSince1983]

Ha here I thought the hurry up no huddle offense was a fairly recent strategy but it appears to have much older roots. :)

Haha I was about to say the same thing.

[mainejeff]

No, those are the odds of Yale not even finding Orono Maine on Saturday.

Yeah, I-95 is just a backcountry logging road.....xrolleyesx

[mainejeff]

http://sportzedge.com/2015/10/15/yale-offense-looks-like-mash-unit-heading-to-maine/

Yale offense looks like MASH unit heading to Maine

Good.

[Go Green]

http://sportzedge.com/2015/10/15/yale-offense-looks-like-mash-unit-heading-to-maine/

Yale offense looks like MASH unit heading to Maine

On behalf of the Dartmouth community--sorry about that. :(

[bulldog10jw]

On behalf of the Dartmouth community--sorry about that. :(

Part of the game.

[Son of Eli]

An impressive victory for Yale on the rad to spoil Maine's homecoming. Yale improves its series record against Maine to 8-0-1. The more things change the more they stay the same. See you Maineiacs in New Haven in 2018.

By the way, the Ivy League is now 4-0 against the CAA the year, 9-6 against the Patriot, and 3-2 against the NEC.

[KPSUL]

An impressive victory for Yale on the rad to spoil Maine's homecoming. Yale improves its series record against Maine to 8-0-1. The more things change the more they stay the same. See you Maineiacs in New Haven in 2018.

By the way, the Ivy League is now 4-0 against the CAA the year, 9-6 against the Patriot, and 3-2 against the NEC.

Impressive wins for Yale and Penn. Considering Harvard's domination of the IL during the past 10 years, their OOC schedule is an embarrassement. UNH is closer to Cambridge than any FCS program, yet Harvard would be just as likely to schedule Boston College, or the New England Patriots, as New Hampshire. Your guys are not afraid to step up and play challenging opponents, I don't know why you'd want to have your OOC accomplishments lumped in with Harvard.

Is "rad" an Ivy league inspired phonetic spelling of "road" ?