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Message: [QUOTE="UConnNick, post: 2855612, member: 1526"] Not only that, but then UConn president Homer Babbidge came directly from Yale, and was all too eager to play along. His vision was to turn UConn into a "public Ivy". That's why he hired Toner to coach the team, because he was an Ivy League guy coming from Columbia, who shared in Babbidge's vision. They must have gotten real nervous when we first beat Yale in football during the 1965 season. For all their emphasis on keeping Yale in the forefront, other than the 1960 season when Yale went undefeated, and the two seasons with Dowling and Hill (1967-68), Yale was decidedly mediocre or worse during the decade of the 60's. Of course, so was UConn. Then came the 80's and 90's when we started routinely whipping up on the Elis, sometimes unmercifully, to the point where they chose to suspend the series. [/QUOTE]