Yale Football Coach Resigns After Lying About Rhodes Scholar Debacle
Maureen O'Connor · 12/22/11 06:15PMA strange coda for story of perfect Yale quarterback Patrick Witt, who dropped out of the finalist round for the Rhodes Scholarship so he could play in the Harvard-Yale football game: While Patrick was agonizing over his decision, his coach Tom Williams told everyone that he faced the same dilemma as a linebacker at Stanford in 1992, and chose football.