What the other side is saying: Yale

Last week I started this new feature of linking to the opposing school's football stories. Week 1 illustrated the Columbia Spectator's reaction to Penn's 27-13 win. This week, let's see what the Yale Daily News -- considered one of the better Ivy newspapers -- had to say about Penn's 9-0 shutout.

The YDN only had one article, a standard recap with a sweet quote from Bulldogs coach Tom Williams, who said “we played with great violence.” (Notice the photo credit). Interesting facts from the recap: though Penn hadn’t shut out an opponent since November 2007, Yale was shut out as recently as the last game of 2008, and in fact didn’t score an offensive touchdown for the second straight week.

There were several comments on the article. Some were vehemently against Williams, who hasn’t thrilled Yalies in his rookie year as coach. But the one defense of him that I especially liked went for the French Revolution metaphor: "Roll the guillotine back into storeage for a bit. ... Show Mr. Williams a year of mercy, since the unfortunate truth is that his current minions are all holdovers from the ancien régime.