OCTOBER IS YALE MONTH AT AGS!!!

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October 2007 is Yale University Month at Any Given Saturday. Each day a Yale factoid will be posted here in this thread and a banner across the top of AGS will be featured.

Why is October Yale Month?
Our annual donation drive includes the super incentive for donations of $215. See: http://www.anygivensaturday.com/forum/showthread.php?t=29949

So if you want your team to have its own month then donate the amount yourself or get a few of your friends together for the gesture.

Bulldogs fans are proudly sponsoring the month of October 2007 for the grand old cause of our favorite online pastime, AGS!

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10/1

2006 RESULTS
Date Opponent / Event Location Time / Result
09/16/06 vs. San Diego New Haven, CT L, 43-17
09/23/06 at Cornell * Ithaca, NY W, 21-9
09/30/06 at Lafayette Easton, PA W, 37-34
10/07/06 at Dartmouth * Hanover, NH W, 26-14
10/14/06 vs. Lehigh New Haven, CT W, 26-20 (OT)
10/21/06 vs. Penn * New Haven, CT W, 17-14 (OT)
10/28/06 vs. Columbia * New Haven, CT W, 21-3
11/04/06 at Brown * Providence, RI W, 27-24
11/11/06 vs. Princeton * New Haven, CT L, 34-31
11/18/06 at Harvard * Cambridge, MA W, 34-13

2007 SCHEDULE
DATE OPPONENT TIME (TV/promo)
Sept. 15 at Georgetown 28-14
Sept. 22 CORNELL* 51-12
Sept. 29 at Holy Cross 38-17
Oct. 6 DARTMOUTH* 12:30 (NESN) Yale Employee Day
Oct. 13 LEHIGH 12:30 (WFMZ)
Oct. 20 at Penn* Noon (YES)
Oct. 27 at Columbia* # 12:30
Nov. 3 BROWN* 12:30
Nov. 10 at Princeton* 1:00 (YES)
Nov. 17 HARVARD* # Noon (HDNet)
* Ivy League Games
# Sirius Satellite Radio

General information
School: Yale University
Founded: 1701
Location: New Haven, Conn. 06520
Enrollment: 5,200 undergrad/5,200 grad
Nickname: Bulldogs, Elis
Colors: Yale Blue and White
President: Richard C. Levin
Director of Athletics: Tom Beckett
Conference: Ivy League
Stadium: Yale Bowl, Class of 1954 Field (61,446)
Captain: Brandt Hollander ’08, MG

Head Coach: Jack Siedlecki
Alma Mater/Year: Union ’74
Record at Yale/Years: 55-44/10 years (1999, 2006 Ivy champs)
Overall Record/Years: 111-66-2/19 years

Assistant Coaches:
Keith Clark – Lafayette ’85 (Associate Head Coach, Offensive Line)
Rick Flanders – Maine ’79 (Associate Head Coach, Defensive Coordinator, Linebackers)
Anthony Reno – Worcester State ’97 (Assistant Head Coach, Defensive Backs)
Duane Brooks – Maine ’87 (Defensive Line)
Larry Ciotti – Southern Connecticut ’66 (Running Backs)
John Fraser – Massachusetts ’76 (Quarterbacks, Receivers)
Shawn Halloran – Boston College ’86 (Special Teams Coordinator, Defensive Assistant)
Jeff McDonald – South Florida ’95 (Defensive Ends, Recruiting Coordinator)
Mark Murray – American International ’82 (Tight Ends)
Strength and Conditioning: Emil Johnson

Returning All-Ivy Players (2006 notes)
LB Bobby Abare ’09 – First-Team, All-New England (46-30-76, 4 ints)
SS Larry Abare ’09 – Second-Team (46-29-75, 1 int)
LB Lee Driftmier ’07 – sat out 2006 with injury; HM ’05 (led team with
54 solos and 89 total and 5 ints)
DE Kyle Hawari ’09 – HM (15-8-23, 3 sacks, 1 int)
MG Brandt Hollander ’08 – First –Team, All-New England (17-7-24, 4 sacks)
TE Langston Johnson ’08 – Second-Team (4 catches, 58 yards)
PK Alan Kimball ’08 – Second-Team (12-19 FG, 29-31 PAT)
TB Mike McLeod ’09 – First-Team (1,364 yards, 20 TDs)
OG Jeff Monaco ’08 – First-Team (offense led Ivy in rushing)
FS Steven Santoro ’09 – HM (35-9-44, 4 ints)
C Nick Wachtler ’08 – HM (offense led Ivy in rushing)

2006 Record: 8-2 Ivy Record: 6-1 (1st-tie)
Home: 3-2 Road: 5-0

Letterwinners Returning: 40 (18 offense; 20 defense; 2 kickers)
Letterwinners Lost: 23 (16 offense; 7 defense; 0 kickers)
Starters Returning: 17 (6 offense, 9 defense, 2 kickers)
Offense (6): C Nick Wachtler; RG Jeff Monaco; RT Darius Dale; TB Mike McLeod; TE Langston Johnson; QB Matt Polhemus
Defense (9): MG Brandt Hollander; DT Kirk Porter; DT Jared Hamilton; DE Kyle Hawari, LB Bobby Abare; CB Paul Rice; CB Casey Gerald; FS Steven Santoro; SS Larry Abare (plus LB Lee Driftmier & FS Nick Solakian from 2005)
Kickers (2): PK Alan Kimball; P Tom Mante
Starters Lost:
Offense (6): WR Chandler Henley; WR Ashley Wright; LT Ed McCarthy; LG Brett Crandall; TE Dave Miller; FB Taylor Craig
Defense (2): DE Brendan Sponheimer; LB Chris Barry

All-Time Record: 838-328-55 (134 years)
Ivy League Titles: (14) (2006, 1999, 1989, 1981, 1980, 1979, 1977, 1976, 1974, 1969, 1968, 1967, 1960, 1956)
Eastern Titles: (20) 1876, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1891, 1892, 1894, 1900, 1906, 1907, 1909, 1923, 1924, 1927, 1960
National Titles: (26) 1872, 1874, 1876, 1877, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1886, 1888, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1897, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1909, 1927

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10/2

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One of the true treasures in American sports, the historic Yale Bowl celebrated its 92nd birthday last fall with a complete renovation. The playing field was named the Class of 1954 Field after the generous gifts to support the renovation. This magnificent facility, which opened on November 21, 1914 for the Yale–Harvard game, has been the site of 559 Bulldog football games, two seasons of NFL action, and was the main venue for the 1995 Special Olympic World Games.

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The Bowl is 930 feet long and 750 feet wide, covering 12 1/2 acres. More than 320,000 cubic feet of earth was moved to form the Bowl and the stadium now contains 22,000 cubic yards of concrete and 470 tons of steel. The capacity of the Bowl is 61,446 (it was 70,869 before alterations in 1994 and 2006) and every seat has an unobstructed view of the playing field. The original seating capacity was 60,617 with an undetermined amount of standing room.

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The Bowl has held crowds of over 70,000 on 20 occasions, the most recent on November 19, 1983, for the 100th playing of the Yale–Harvard game. The largest crowd to attend a Yale game at the Bowl was 80,000 for the Army game on November 3, 1923. The crowd of 75,300 which attended the Yale–Harvard showdown in 1981 was the largest at a sporting event in New England in more than 50 years.

The NFL’s New York Giants and Detroit Lions brought professional football to the Bowl for the first time in the summer of 1960. The Giants, who played the New York Jets in a number of memorable exhibition contests during the ’70s, used the Bowl as their regular-season home field in 1973 and 1974 while Yankee Stadium was being renovated.

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The design for the Yale Bowl was proposed by Charles A. Ferry, Class of 1871, as a replacement for Yale Field, the 33,000–seat home of the football team since 1884. Work began on the project in August, 1913, with 145 men working for the Sperry Engineering Company of New Haven. The portals were constructed first; then the excavation began. Once the 30–foot walls were formed to support the top rows of seats, the nearly 30 miles of wooden–backed seats were put in place. The cost of the final product: $750,000. The electrified scoreboard was added in 1958, while the new press box was erected in 1987. The day after the 1993 season came to an end, the Yale Bowl playing surface got a face lift, which included new irrigation and drainage systems.

The Special Olympics World Games, international soccer contests and other special events being hosted on a regular basis make the Bowl one of the most significant venues in the East.

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Head Coach

Jack Siedlecki, the Joel E. Smilow ‘54 Head Coach of Football, has coached Yale to a pair of Ivy League Championships and has posted a 55-44 (38-32 Ivy) record in 10 seasons at New Haven.

The latest success was a share of the 2006 Ivy title after finishing 8-2 (6-1) with a 34-13 win at Harvard on Nov. 18. That Yale squad finished No. 25 in The Sports Network final rankings. The 2006 season began with a first-year QB starter and the loss of two senior defensive stars to injury and culminated with Yale’s 14th Ancient Eight crown and 13 All-Ivy selections.

Siedlecki, who will be a head coach for the 20th season in 2007, owns a 111-62-2 (.640) overall mark and has seen almost every Yale offensive record altered during his Bulldog days.

The former Amherst College head coach was named Yale's 32nd football mentor on Dec. 19, 1996.

Siedlecki (pronounced sid-LECK-ee) put the finishing touches on one of the most amazing transformations in college football when Yale beat Harvard on Nov. 20, 1999, before 52,484 in the Yale Bowl. That last-second win, broadcast live on national television, not only gave the Bulldogs a share of the 1999 Ivy League title and a second straight H-Y-P title, it meant that Siedlecki’s squad had gone from 1-9 his first year to 9-1 two years later, earning him the 1999 New England Sports Writers Coach of the Year honors.

Siedlecki’s Bulldogs, who have led the nation (both FBS and FCS) in fewest turnovers twice, have produced three All-America offensive players while helping to change the face of the game in the Ivy League. His innovative style and perspective on the game have earned him national attention. Under Siedlecki, Yale players have been named first team All-Ivy 24 times, and the Elis have broken a slew of records, including individual career marks for passing yardage, rushing yardage and every important receiving standard.

Siedlecki’s offensive wizardry has turned Yale football into one of the most exciting programs in the East. His prize pupils, quarterbacks Joe Walland ‘00 and Alvin Cowan ‘04, became the most prolific offensive players in the history of Yale football. The 2000 campaign brought many team and individual accolades as well, while the 7-3 Bulldogs finished third in the standings. The Elis had the longest active win streak in FCS until falling at Cornell in week two.

Ten players earned All-Ivy honors and Yale became the first college football team to win 800 games with its victory over Dayton at Yale Bowl on Sept. 16.

Siedlecki, who has 30 years of college coaching experience, compiled a 20-11-1 record at Division III Amherst in four seasons and was the 1996 American Football Coaches Association District I Coach of the Year after going 7-1 and winning the New England Small College Athletic Conference championship.

He also compiled a 36-11-1 mark in five campaigns as head football coach at Division III Worcester (Mass.) Polytechnic Institute, where his 1990 team went 8-0-1 and the 1992 squad had a 9-1 record and was ranked first in the ECAC New England poll. Siedlecki, who has been both an offensive and defensive coordinator, was the 1992 AFCA Kodak District I Coach of the Year at WPI.

An assistant coach at the University of Albany (1976-79), Wagner College (1980) and Lafayette College (1981-87), Siedlecki has coached three different teams (Albany '77, Wagner '80, WPI '92) in the national playoffs.

Siedlecki, a 1974 graduate of Union College, earned a B.A. in history while lettering in football as a running back and linebacker. Also a letterman in baseball as a pitcher, he was a three-sport star at Johnstown (N.Y.) High School, where his father served as head coach for more than 20 seasons.

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10/4

Coach Jack Siedlecki's head coaching record:

1988 Worcester Poly 4-4
1989 Worcester Poly 8-2
1990 Worcester Poly 8-0-1
1991 Worcester Poly 7-3
1992 Worcester Poly 9-2
1993 Amherst 3-5
1994 Amherst 5-3
1995 Amherst 5-2-1
1996 Amherst 7-1
1997 Yale 1-9
1998 Yale 6-4
1999 Yale 9-1
2000 Yale 7-3
2001 Yale 3-6
2002 Yale 6-4
2003 Yale 6-4
2004 Yale 5-5
2005 Yale 4-6
2006 Yale 8-2

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The first official athletic competition between League schools was more than 150 years ago (1852, Harvard-Yale rowing) and the first football game was more than 130 years ago (1872, Columbia-Yale).

In the early days, the Ivy schools dominated college athletics. All-America status, Olympic medals and national championships were routinely earned by students from the Ancient Eight.

Today, Ivy Leaguers continue to claim national titles and Olympic medals – as well as All-America and Academic All-America status. Hundreds continue athletic careers as professionals and hundreds more as coaches and athletic administrators.

The success of the League comes without athletic scholarships while maintaining self-imposed high academic standards. The Ivy League has demonstrated a rare willingness and ability, given the pressures on intercollegiate success throughout the nation, to abide by these rules and still compete successfully in Division I athletics.

The term “Ivy colleges” was first used in October, 1933 by Stanley Woodward of the New York Herald Tribune to describe the eight current Ivy schools (plus Army). On Feb. 8, 1935, Associated Press sports editor Alan Gould first used the exact term “Ivy League.”

The first “Ivy Group Agreement,” signed in 1945, applied only to football. It affirmed the observance of common practices in academic standards and eligibility requirements and the administration of need-based financial
aid, with no athletic scholarships. The agreement created the Presidents Policy Committee, including the eight Presidents; the Coordination and Eligibility Committee, made up of one senior non-athletic administrator from
each school; and the committee on Administration, comprised of the eight directors of athletics.

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10/6

Final 2006 Ivy League Football Standings

Ivy/ Overall

Yale (6-1) (8-2)
Princeton (6-1) (9-1)
Harvard (4-3) (7-3)
Penn (3-4) (5-5)
Cornell (3-4) (5-5)
Columbia (2-5) (5-5)
Brown (2-5) (3-7)
Dartmouth (2-5) (2-8)

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10/6 (Bonus Post)

Today’s Game: Yale v/s Dartmouth

Series history: Yale leads 48-36-6

First Game 1884

Last Yale Win: 2006 (26-14)

Current Series Streak Yale: 4

Longest Series Streak Yale: 8 (1884-1900)

Last Shutout by Yale: 2005 (13-0)

Most Points by Yale: 113 (1884); modern 56 (1967)

Greatest Win Margin by Yale: 113 (113-0 in 1884); 41 (twice)

Coach Siedlecki vs. Dartmouth 6-4

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Longest Plays Series

Rushing

93 yds Denny McGill vs Dartmouth, 1956

90 yds Chris Kouri at Princeton, 1991

87 yds Dick Jauron vs Columbia, 1972

82 yds Buddy Zachery vs Army, 1988

81 yds John Pagliaro at Columbia, 1977

80 yds Rich Diana vs Brown, 1981, Dick Jauron vs Brown, 1972, Dick Jauron vs Connecticut, 1972, Bill Henderson vs Dartmouth, 1964

79 yds Herb Hallas vs Connecticut, 1958, Clint Frank vs Princeton, 1937, Rashad Bartholomew at Dartmouth, 2000

Passing

97 Don Gesicki to Gary Fencik at Prin., 1975

93 Joe Massey to Bob Milligan vs UConn, 1969

90 Steve Mills to Dave Iwan vs. Dartmouth, 1993

77 J. Spagnola to Bob Krystyniak at Harv., 1978

76 Joe Walland to Jake Fuller vs Princeton, 1998
Joe Massey to Rich Maher vs Brown, 1970
Fred Harrison to Alan Bartholemy at Pennsylvania, 1940 (lateral to Bill Bell)

75 Brian Dowling to Calvin Hill vs Brown, 1968

74 Clint Frank to Flick Hoxton vs Maine, 1937

73 Alvin Cowan to P.J. Collins vs. Towson, 2003

Field Goals

54 Otis Guernsey vs Princeton, 1915

52 Charlie O’Hearn vs Carnegie Tech, 1922

52 Ed Perks vs Cornell, 1990

52 Bill Moore vs Princeton, 1982

49 Tony Jones vs Pennsylvania, 1981

48 Alan Kimball vs San Diego, 2004

47 David Schwartz at Princeton, 1977

47 Chuck Mercein at Cornell, 1964

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10/8

Longest Plays Series:

Kickoff Returns

100 Ken Hill vs Cornell, 1978

98 Nick Kangas (handoff from Lou Muller) at Princeton, 1959

97 Jim Ryan vs Fordham, 1950

96 David Knox vs. Penn, 2002

95 Bob Lassiter vs Princeton, 1931, Albert Wilson vs Maine, 1937 Rob Masella at Brown, 1994

94 Albie Booth vs Dartmouth, 1931, Steven Santoro vs San Diego, 2006

92 Court Shevelson vs Cornell, 1965

88 Robert Parker vs Army, 1931

87 Ken Wolfe vs Columbia, 1960

Punt Returns

94 Herb Hallas vs Pennsylvania, 1958

77 Rich Diana vs Connecticut, 1980 (no TD)

74 Ralph Wisz vs Columbia, 1955, Albie Booth vs Army, 1929

73 Ralph Wisz vs Pennsylvania, 1956

67 Brock Martin vs Princeton, 1952 (no TD)

65 Bob Parker vs Princeton, 1931

59 Jack Cirie at Harvard, 1962

58 Clint Frank vs New Hampshire, 1935

57 Todd Tomich vs. Columbia, 1998

Interception Returns

99 Bob Blanchard vs Colgate, 1960

83 Nate Boxrucker vs Princeton, 1998, Bill Conway vs Dartmouth, 1948

80 Benjamin Cutler vs Maryland, 1924

77 Tim Kotkiewicz vs Dartmouth, 1984 (no TD), Jack Ford vs Pennsylvania, 1969

75 Ed Bench vs North Carolina, 1923, Harlan Ellis vs Dartmouth, 1929

69 Paul Walker at Columbia, 1944

67 Peter Mazza vs. Valparaiso, 1999, Ryan LoProto vs. Columbia, 2000

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10/9

Yale’s NFL draft picks

Bob “Choo-Choo” Train 1936 Detroit Lions
Larry Kelley 1937 Detroit Lions
Clint Frank 1938 Detroit Lions
Paul Walker 1945 Detroit Lions
Fritz Barzilauskas 1947 Boston Yanks
John Prchlik 1947 Boston Yanks
Bill Schuler 1947 New York Giants
Bob “Tex” Furse 1948 Boston Yanks
Jack Roderick 1948 Boston Yanks
Ferd Nadherny 1950 Chicago Bears
Fritz Barzilauskas 1950 New York Giants
Bob Spears 1952 Chicago Bears
Ed Woodsum 1953 Chicago Cardinals
Phil Tarasovic 1956 Pittsburgh Steelers
Al Ward 1957 Chicago Bears
Dennis McGill 1957 Philadelphia Eagles
Paul Lopata 1957 Wash. Redskins
Mike Pyle 1961 Chicago Bears, and 1961 New York Titans
Ben Balme 1961 Philadelphia Eagles, and 1961 L.A. Chargers
Dick Niglio 1964 Chicago Bears , and 1964 Boston Patriots
Chuck Mercein 1965 New York Giants, and 1965 Buffalo Bills
Bob Greenlee 1967 Miami Dolphins
Calvin Hill 1969 Dallas Cowboys
Bruce Weinstein 1969 Miami Dolphins
Brian Dowling 1969 Minnesota Vikings
Tom Neville 1971 Baltimore Colts
Jim Gallagher 1971 Minnesota Vikings
Don Martin 1971 Oakland Raiders
Bob Leyen 1973 Dallas Cowboys
Dick Jauron 1973 Detroit Lions
Greg Dubinetz 1975 Cincinnati Bengals
Elvin Charity 1975 Cincinnati Bengals
Rudy Green 1975 Detroit Lions
Tom Doyle 1975 Oakland Raiders
Gary Fencik 1976 Miami Dolphins
John Spagnola 1979 N.E. Patriots
Kenny Hill 1980 Oakland Raiders
Jeff Rohrer 1982 Dallas Cowboys
Rich Diana 1982 Miami Dolphins
Curt Grieve 1982 Philadelphia Eagles
Eric Johnson 2001 S.F. 49ers
Than Merrill 2001 T.B. Buccaneers
Nate Lawrie 2004 T.B. Buccaneers

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10/10

Undefeated Seasons 30:
1872 (1–0), 1874 (3–0), 1876 (3–0), 1877 (3–0–
1), 1879 (3–0–2), 1880 (4–0–1), 1881 (5–0–1),
1882 (8–0), 1883 (8–0), 1884 (8–0–1), 1886
(9–0–1), 1887 (9–0), 1888 (13–0), 1891 (13–0),
1892 (13–0), 1894 (16–0), 1895 (13–0–2), 1897
(9–0–2), 1900 (12–0), 1902 (11–0–1), 1905
(10–0), 1906 (9–0–1), 1907 (9–0–1), 1909
(10–0), 1917 (3-0), 1923 (8–0), 1924 (6–0–
2), 1944 (7–0–1), 1960 (9–0), 1968 (8–0–1)

Win Streak 37:
Oct. 5, 1887–Nov. 28, 1889; Nov. 27, 1890–Nov. 30, 1893

Unbeaten Streak 48:
Nov. 21, 1885-Nov. 28, 1889

Unscored on Seasons 11:
1872, 1876, 1877, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1888, 1891,
1892, 1909, 1917

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10/11

Top 10 crowds at the bowl

1. Army Nov. 3, 1923 80,000
2. Army Nov. 1, 1924 78,000
2.t Princeton Nov. 17, 1923 78,000
4. Harvard Nov. 25, 1916 77,000
5. Harvard Nov. 21, 1981 75,300
6. Army Oct. 31, 1925 74,786
6.t Princeton Nov. 14, 1925 74,786
6.t Army Oct. 27, 1928 74,786
6.t Harvard Nov. 24, 1928 74,786
6.t Army Oct. 25, 1930 74,786

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10/12

Yale University, founded in 1701, is the third–oldest college in the United States and one of the foremost research universities in the world. First
known as the Collegiate School, it changed its name in 1718 to honor benefactor, Elihu Yale.

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10/13

Series history:

Yale leads 13-5-0

First Game 1890

Last Yale Win 2006 (26-20 OT)

Current Series Streak Yale-1

Longest Series Streak Yale-12 (1890-1989)

Last Shutout by Yale 1964 (54-0)

Last Shutout by Lehigh (none)

Most Points by Yale 54 (1964)

Greatest Win Margin by Yale 54 (54-0 in1964)

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10/14

Keith Clark

Associate head coach/offensive coordinator/offensive line

Clark, who is in his fifth season as the Associate Head Coach in 2007, came to Yale in 1997 as the offensive line coach and still works with the big guys. His coaching has contributed to numerous offensive records, and he has mentored linemen who have earned nine first-team All-Ivy honors and two All-American honors.

He was the offensive line coach and run game coordinator at Columbia for five seasons prior to his arrival in New Haven. He left his position as offensive line coach and recruiting coordinator at Wagner College to join the Lions in 1992. Clark assisted coaching the defensive secondary at the University of Maine and Rutgers University prior to that. He began his coaching career as the head coach of the Bolzano Jets (spring-summer 1986, 1987), an Italian professional team located in the Alto Adige, where he compiled a 21-6 record and reached the semifinal round of the playoffs each season.

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10/15

Walter Camp
1859 – 1925

xbowx October is Yale month at AGS but Yale month would not be complete without a proper tribute to Mr. Walter Camp; the Father of American Football. Most members frequent AGS Monday through Friday, so 10/15-10/19 will be Walter Camp Week within Yale month on AGS.-mod66xbowx

Walter Camp was one of the giants of football in the United States. He stands with Stagg, Rockne, Thorpe, Warner, Heffelfinger in the imprint they made upon the game. More accurately, he stands first among them, for it was he who sired the game as it is played in the United States, the game that evolved from the rugby football of England. He played in the first Yale-Harvard game of rugby in 1876. From then on, his was the fertile, inventive mind and guiding leadership that brought about the evolution of the American style of football.

As a young man, Walter Camp was a competent swimmer, a good runner, and an able tennis player. By intense devotion to a regime of physical training, calisthenics and self-denial, he became an outstanding athlete and it is our good fortune that he chose to elect football as the game to which he gave this intense dedication.

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Walter Camp played on the varsity teams of Yale from 1877 to 1882, serving as Captain in '78, '79, and '81. Under his leadership, Yale showed a record of twenty-five victories, one defeat, and six ties. Included with his highly developed skill as a runner, kicker, and sure tackler was an equally developed desire to win by all fair means and within the rules as they existed then. His contributions to football are many. He is credited with the play from scrimmage, the numerical assessment of goals and tries, the restriction of play to eleven men per side, set plays, sequences, and strategy features which have led to the development of the fast, interesting, and organized game which we enjoy so much today. He is also credited with choosing the first All-America team, whereby recognition for outstanding play and accomplishment were properly made.

However, these are not the things alone for which he was known. He brought organization, planning, and stature to the game and served on the rules committee from his college days until his death. He helped to establish the National Collegiate Athletic Association; which provided a control under which collegiate athletics operate, and during the First World War he was responsible for the physical conditioning of most of our armed forces.

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10/17

In its early years, football teams consisted of up to 25 players per side, and lax rules resulted in an amazingly violent sport. Players were often injured and some were even killed. In 1905, so many deaths occurred on the field that then President Theodore Roosevelt+, a proponent of strenuous exercise, made it known that collegiate football would have to be made safer or it would be outlawed.

Among other things, Walter Camp contributed the following changes from Rugby and Soccer to American football:
· One side retained undisputed possession of the ball, until that side gives up the ball as a result of its own violations
· The line of scrimmage
· 11 on a team instead of 15 and 25
· A system of yards to go and downs*
· Created the quarter-back and center positions
· The forward pass
· Standardized the scoring system, numerical scoring
· Created the safety, interference, penalties, and the neutral zone
· Tackling as low as the knee was permitted – 1888
· A touchdown increased in value to six points and field goals went down to three points – 1912

*Princeton sat on the ball for an entire half to prevent Yale from scoring in 1880 and 1881.
+T. Roosevelt played for Harvard. His main objection was the “flying wedge”.

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Walter Camp was not only the sire of American football but also a savior. For almost half a century, from 1876 until his death on March 14, 1925, this noble character was a prominent figure on the football scene and for most of the years he led in giving the game shape and character, and in setting and enforcing standards of fair play and sportsmanship. At the same time, he was singularly successful as a businessman, working his way from a position in the sales force of the New Haven Clock Company to president and chairman of the board of directors.

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10/19

He was Yale's first football coach and from 1876 until 1910 he played an important role in the direction of the technique and strategy of football and especially Yale football. He was a member of every rules convention or committee until 1911. His All-America teams for the years 1898 through 1924, were recognized as official. But most of all, his fame rests upon the fact that he, above all others, was responsible for conceiving and bringing into being the game of football which typifies the American competitive spirit in its premium upon imagination, speed, strategy and daring, as well as upon sheer physical ability and durability."

It is for his qualities as a human being, his unselfishness, his sincerity, his leadership in the interests of sportsmanship and fair play---these are the facets of Walter Camp that made him respected and admired in whatever group he gathered.

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10/20

Today’s Game v/s Penn

Series History:

Yale leads 43-30-1

First Game 1879

Last Yale Win 2006 (17-14) (OT)

Current Series Streak Yale-1

Longest Series Streak Yale-12 (1879-1893)

Last Shutout by Yale 1980 (8-0)

Last Tie 1978 (17-17)

Most Points by Yale 75 (1886) modern-44 (1967)

Greatest Win Margin by Yale 75 (75-0 in 1886); modern: 33 (40-7 in 1956)

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10/21

Rick Flanders
Associate head coach/defensive coordinator/linebackers

Flanders, coaching his 11th season at Yale in 2007, has been the defensive coordinator the entire time. Flanders was promoted to associate head coach in March 2007. He spent the first seven seasons focusing on defensive backs and the last three working with linebackers. Under his watch, the Yale defense has consistently been ranked in the top three of the league.

He came to Yale from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was secondary coach for five seasons. He is a 1979 University of Maine graduate who helped coach Penn to Ivy titles in 1993 and 1994. Flanders’ defensive backs helped the Penn defense rank nationally in both seasons, including No. 1 in pass efficiency defense for 1994. Before heading to Philadelphia, Flanders was head coach of the undefeated 1991 Dean (Mass.) Junior College team and was the linebacker and special teams coach at Lafayette from 1987 to 1990. In 1986 he was the defensive coordinator at American International College, after three seasons as linebacker and defensive back coach at SUNY-Albany, where he served as head lacrosse coach for two years.

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10/22


Anthony Reno

Assistant head coach/defensive backs

Tony Reno will coach his fifth season at Yale in 2007, his fourth with the defensive backs. He transformed a young 2006 Bulldog secondary into a championship unit that included a pair of All-Ivy picks. He was promoted to assistant head coach in March 2007. Reno, who handled the wide receivers his first season, gained valuable experience as the former defensive coordinator and secondary coach at Worcester State College. He helped transform a 1-9 team into the ECAC Northeast Champions three years later.

In 2002, Reno was honored with the AFLAC National Assistant Coach of the Year Award. Reno was the defensive ends coach at King’s College (Pa.) in 1997-98

Reno was a three-year starter at free safety, and his team was league champion both his junior and senior years.

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10/23

Defensive Line

Duane Brooks will coach his 11th season at Yale in 2007, handling the defensive linemen. His coaching has consistently produced all-league players who help anchor the defense. Brooks has also mentored three captains since coming to Yale.

He came to Yale after serving as the coordinator of football operations at the University of Pennsylvania in 1996. He was the defensive end coach for Allegheny College in 1995 and had the combined role of defensive line coach and recruiting and special teams coordinator for Johnson C. Smith University in 1994.

A 1987 graduate of the University of Maine, Brooks played four seasons for the Black Bears. He began his coaching career at Colby College as the defensive line mentor (1992) before going back to his alma mater in 1993 to coach the defense and serve as video coordinator.

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10/24

Larry Ciotti

Running backs

Larry Ciotti, head coach of the last Yale freshman squad ever (1991-92), coaches his 15th season with the varsity in 2007. Ciotti worked with the outside linebackers for two years before handling offensive backs the last 11 years. He worked with Rashad Bartholomew ’01, who signed with the Tennessee Titans after breaking Yale’s all-time rushing record, and also mentored two-time All-Ivy back Robert Carr, who surpassed Bartholomew in the record books in 2004. His latest backfield star, Mike McLeod, was 2005 Ivy Rookie of the Year before breaking numerous records as a 2006 first-team All-Ivy pick. Ciotti’s 1992 freshman team captured the Ivy title. He had an 8-4 record in his two years as coach of the Bullpups.

Ciotti is a Connecticut high school coaching legend. In 19 seasons (1970-88) as the head coach at Daniel Hand in Madison, Conn., he compiled a 141-14-2 record and won five state titles. Ciotti then served as director of athletics at Hand from 1988 to 1992. In 1993, he was inducted into the Connecticut High School Coaches Hall of Fame. Ciotti captained the 1965 Southern Connecticut State University football team (graduated in ’66) and earned All-New England and All-Eastern League honors as a center/linebacker.

His son, Mike ’90, was a center for the 1989 Ivy Champion Bulldogs.

In 1998 Ciotti was inducted into the Southern Connecticut State University Hall of Fame.

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10/25

John Fraser

quarterbacks/receivers

John Fraser, who is responsible for the Yale quarterbacks and receivers, has
one Ivy League Championship in as many seasons in New Haven. He joined the staff in March of 2006 after spending two years as an assistant coach at Hamline (Minn.) University.

Fraser was an assistant at Colgate University from 1988 to 1990, including one year as the offensive coordinator. He has also assisted at Lafayette (1985-87), Columbia (1982-84) and Albany (1976-78). Fraser, a 1976 graduate of the University of Massachusetts, was the head coach at Phillips Exeter (N.H.) Academy for two seasons (1981-82) after serving as offensive coordinator for a year. He also spent nine years as Director of Medical Staff Affairs for Bassett Healthcare in Cooperstown, N.Y.

Fraser earned his master’s in education from Albany.

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10/26

Shawn Halloran

special teams coordinator/offense & defense assistant

Shawn Halloran, who served as Yale’s linebackers and special teams coach from 1997 to 2001, returned to the Bulldogs in May 2007 after three years as head coach at Franklin & Marshall and a year as the offensive coordinator at Penn. A talented recruiter, Halloran opened up Yale’s Texas pipeline, a connection that helped produce some of the most prolific offensive players (Robert Carr, Alvin Cowan) in school history. He was a key part of the Bulldogs’ 1999 Ivy League title and mentored school record holders in field
goals, punting and punt returns.

From 1993-1996, he was the offensive coordinator at Georgetown. Halloran also was an assistant coach at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1992) under Jack Siedlecki and a graduate assistant at Boston College (1991) under Tom Coughlin. Halloran led a resurgence of the Franklin & Marshall program during his three-year tenure (2002-05), compiling a 17-15 record that included 28 All-Centennial conference players, two All-America and academic All-America selections, an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipient and back-to-back ECAC postseason appearances. His Diplomats won the 2004 Centennial Conference Championship and the 2004 ECAC Southwest Bowl. Halloran’s 2005 squad played in the ECAC Southeast Bowl. Halloran, a communications major and 1986 Boston College graduate, quarterbacked the Eagles’ football team and became a member of the school’s athletic hall of fame. He was the ABC Television Network Comeback Player of the Year in 1986 and won MVP honors at the 1986 Hall of Fame Bowl in Tampa, Fla. He was a three-time winner of the New England Sports Writers’ Gold Helmet Award.

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10/27

Today’s Game

Series History

Yale leads 63-19-2

First Game 1872

Last Yale Win 2006 (21-3)

Current Series Streak Yale-5

Longest Series Streak Yale-10 (1984-93)

Last Shutout by Yale 2000 (41-0)

Last Shutout by Columbia 1961 (11-0)

Last Tie 1978 (3-3)

Most Points by Yale 93 (1883); modern-48 (1981)

Greatest Win Margin by Yale 93 (93-0 in 1883); modern: 47 (47-0 in 1986)

Coach Siedlecki vs. Columbia 8-2

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10/28

Jeff McDonald

Defensive ends/recruiting coordinator

McDonald, 33, begins his fifth year as coach of the Bulldog defensive ends and is also the recruiting coordinator. He came to Yale after a season of work as outside linebacker coach at the University of New Hampshire.

McDonald is a Florida native who earned a varsity football letter in 1991 at Western Connecticut State and then three track and field letters at South Florida (1993-95). He transferred to the Sunshine State school after a gridiron injury. The offensive lineman turned thrower was named to the Metro Conference Commissioner’s List for Academic Excellence at South Florida before becoming a coach. He served in three different roles for three seasons as an assistant football coach at Division II Quincy (Ill.) University, including the defensive and recruiting coordinator positions. That came after three campaigns as an assistant coach at Ridgewood (Fla.) High School.

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10/29

Mark Murray

Tight ends

Mark Murray, who handles the Bulldog tight ends, joined the Yale staff in the summer of 2006 after seven seasons (1999-2005) as the offensive line and running backs coach for the Canadian Football League’s Hamilton Tiger Cats.

Murray, who graduated from American International College in 1982, has been an assistant coach at five different colleges and with two CFL squads, including Toronto (1995). He coached at Bowling Green (1996-99), Navy (1988-94), Wagner (1983-88), Albany (1982) and his alma mater (1982). His offensive line at Navy helped the Midshipmen set six league passing records, while his 1998 Bowling Green squad led the nation in rushing and total offense. Murray, who was also an assistant athletic director at Wagner, received a certificate of advanced graduate studies from there in 1984.

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10/30

16 November 1872
Yale plays its first intercollegiate football game, taking on Columbia at Hamilton Park in New Haven. A last minute substitute, T.T. Sherman, Class of 1874, scores the first point in Yale football history, as the Elis win, three goals to none.

25 October 1873
For the first time in Yale history, an admission fee is charged for a football game. More than one thousand people pay 35 cents each to watch Yale beat Rutgers three goals to one.

13 November 1875
Yale and Harvard play The Game for the first time. Harvard prevails four goals to one. Seven Harvard students are arrested at post-game parties for "hooting and singing in the public streets" and fined $5.29 each.

19 November 1892
At The Game, Yale students belt out "Hold the Fort," the first fight song in football history. The team responds, beating Harvard 6-0.

15 November 1902
For the first time in history, a movie camera records a football game. Yale defeats Princeton 12-5, as cameraman Thomas Alva Edison films the action.

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10/31

17 October 1914
Yale defeats Notre Dame 28-0. The shutout ends a 27-game winning streak by the Fighting Irish, and the loss, then-assistant coach Knute Rockne would note in his autobiography, was "the most valuable lesson Notre Dame ever had in football. It taught us never to be cocksure."

21 November 1914
The Yale Bowl opens with 70,000 fans arriving for The Game.

12 October 1940
The Yale-University of Pennsylvania game is televised. It is a first for Yale, and it marks only the third time that TV cameras have captured a football game.

24 September 1949
The football team beats Connecticut 26-0 led by Levi Jackson, the first African American to captain a Yale team in any sport.

16 September 2000
Yale marks the opening day of its 128th football season by beating the University of Dayton, 42-6, and becoming the first college team in gridiron history to garner 800 wins.

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