Truth Be Told: The Fight for Women's Professional Soccer

The Yale Bulldogs are the college sports teams that represent Yale University, located in New Haven, Connecticut. The school sponsors 35 varsity sports. The school has won two NCAA national championships (and one AIAW championship) in women's fencing, four in men's swimming and diving, 21 in men's golf, one in men's hockey, and one in men's lacrosse. Originally inspired by varsity matches between Oxford University and Cambridge University in England, Yale and Harvard influenced the development of college athletics in the United States. In 1970 the NCAA banned Yale from participating in all NCAA sports for two years, in reaction to Yale—against the wishes of the NCAA—playing Jack Langer in college games after Langer had played for Team United States at the 1969 Maccabiah Games in Israel with the approval of Yale President Kingman Brewster. The decision impacted 300 Yale students, every Yale student on its sports teams, over the next two years.