Slightly more than 48 hours removed from an emotional end to the 2012 season, the Yale football team gathered at Commons Monday night for the team’s annual banquet. This was the first under Tony Reno as Yale’s Joel E. Smilow ’54 Head Coach of Football, and while much of the night was dedicated to the graduating seniors there was also clearly an air of optimism in looking forward to next year. The progress the Bulldogs made under the new coaching staff had just been illustrated by a hard-fought battle with the heavily favored Crimson in the 119th edition of The Game; Yale led until two late touchdowns gave Harvard a 34-24 win.

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