I live in New Haven, and it amazes me that they are messing with the Yale-Harvard game. It's the only Yale game anyone EVER goes to, and only happens every other year. Example: Yale Bowl holds roughly 64,000 seats. This year's largest attendance? 21,700 against Brown. It rained the day of the Dartmouth game, and they drew a mere 2,400 fans.

Man, that's got to be depressing playing in front of all those enpty seats. Maybe that's why they're trying to get some of those people to actually enter the bowl and watch the game.

Ted,

As a Columbia grad I'm in no position to get uppity about football attendance, etc. but this no tailgating past halftime rule is the lamest thing I've ever heard of. No one goes to Ivy League games for the actual football...

Perhaps they should remove the top third of the Yale Bowl, and turn it into the Yale Saucer, so it doesn't look so empty...Enjoy the game (or tailgating) and thanks for the post.

To clarify, I couldn't agree more about the tailgaiting. I hate when people mess with sports traditions. My guess is that they are acting on advise from their insurance carrier....

What they should do is tear down that dump Yale Bowl and build a 40-thousand seat stadium similar to the one the state built at Rentschler Field for UConn. Yale has the cash, I believe their endowment is up to 12-billion.

Duke officials this year imposed a rule ending tailgating at kickoff! Naturally, students resented it and didn't go to games. The result is off-campus parties, which means drunk driving and arrests for drunk-in-public. And empty stadiums.

Milbarge,

That's some kind of lame.

That makes no sense. I'm pretty sure earlier in the year the Dean or something of Michigan said the students should "sit down" during the game. Can you imagine trying to make LSU, Bama, or Auburn students sit down during the game? Could you imagine if Ole Miss asked their fans to stop tailgating at halftime? Laughable.