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bulldog10jw
November 29th, 2007, 01:05 PM
http://yalebulldogs.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/112607aaa.html

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - A party of more than 600 alumni, parents, and friends gathered in Coxe Cage November 17, 2007, to celebrate a landmark for Yale football and the Campaign for Yale Athletics. Capping nearly two-and-one-half years of construction, the Saturday morning ceremony commemorated the top-to-bottom renovation of Yale Bowl, a national landmark now in its ninety-third season of gridiron action.
brownbear
November 29th, 2007, 03:30 PM
Were they not done before that? When I was there for the Brown game, it looked finished to me.
Ivytalk
November 29th, 2007, 03:48 PM
Nice, classy gesture to invite Harvard's president!xthumbsupx Congrats on the achievement!
appfan2008
November 29th, 2007, 04:06 PM
congrats on upgrading such an historic stadium...
YaleFootballFan
November 30th, 2007, 01:38 AM
Were they not done before that? When I was there for the Brown game, it looked finished to me.

Phase I of the renovations are complete.

Phase II will begin in 2008, which will be the addition of a new video scoreboard, new skyboxes and a new entrance to the Central Avenue/Lot D main gate, that will include a plaza with a listing of every Yale football team since 1872.

BTW, has anyone noticed Yale is 0-3 when they dedicate anything pertaining to the Bowl? They've had three dedications, each at the Harvard game, starting in 1914:

1914: Yale's first game at the Bowl; Harvard wins 36-0.
1987: Yale's first game with the brand new press box; Harvard wins 14-10.
2007: Yale rededicates the renovated Bowl; Harvard wins 37-6.

Can we please have the dedication for Phase II at the Princeton game instead? xrolleyesx
bulldog10jw
November 30th, 2007, 09:42 AM
BTW, has anyone noticed Yale is 0-3 when they dedicate anything pertaining to the Bowl?




I've noticed.xsmhx
Ivytalk
November 30th, 2007, 10:12 AM
I've noticed.xsmhx

Do you have anything planned for '09?:p
brownbear
November 30th, 2007, 10:20 AM
Phase I of the renovations are complete.

Phase II will begin in 2008, which will be the addition of a new video scoreboard, new skyboxes and a new entrance to the Central Avenue/Lot D main gate, that will include a plaza with a listing of every Yale football team since 1872.

BTW, has anyone noticed Yale is 0-3 when they dedicate anything pertaining to the Bowl? They've had three dedications, each at the Harvard game, starting in 1914:

1914: Yale's first game at the Bowl; Harvard wins 36-0.
1987: Yale's first game with the brand new press box; Harvard wins 14-10.
2007: Yale rededicates the renovated Bowl; Harvard wins 37-6.

Can we please have the dedication for Phase II at the Princeton game instead? xrolleyesx

Have it done for the Brown game in '09!
bulldog10jw
November 30th, 2007, 12:49 PM
Do you have anything planned for '09?:p

Hopefully, a second straight win against you guys. xnodx
Marcus Garvey
November 30th, 2007, 01:25 PM
Isn't phase III where Yale gets an international airport?

xlolx xlolx xlolx
Ivytalk
November 30th, 2007, 03:45 PM
Hopefully, a second straight win against you guys. xnodx

The trend may cut both ways. Harvard made improvements at The Stadium before you waxed us last year.xreadx My advice to Harvard: enough already!;)
bulldog10jw
December 1st, 2007, 08:40 AM
For YFF (or Husky Alum, or UNH Alum in CT, or Aceinthehole): Have you seen this kid play? Is he as good as they say, or a product of Ansonia's "system"?

http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2007/11/30/sports/301498.txt

ANSONIA - On the eve of the biggest game of his storybook high school football career, Ansonia High senior Alex Thomas received the greatest news of all for his future when he obtained a "likely acceptance letter" from Yale University on Friday.