 | Wide receiver Ron Benigno '04 and the Bulldogs will kick off their season with Youth Day on Sept. 20 and Employee Day on Sept. 27. |
The Bulldogs will begin the 2003 football season with what have become two Athletics Department traditions -- Youth Days at Yale and Employee Day at the Bowl.
For the past 70 years, the University has invited youngsters from the Greater New Haven and Shoreline areas to come to campus for a day of sports clinics and other activities with Yale coaches and players.
The fal lYouth Day at Yale coincides with the Bulldogs' first home game
The day's program will include Youth League football games in the Yale Bowl, the New Haven Park and Recreation Pass-Kick Competition, sports and cheerleading clinics, and Shoreline and Pop Warner Scholar-Athlete awards.
There will also be a Youth Day Fair with activities featuring games, contests, demonstrations and entertainment by such organizations as the Connecticut State Police Canine Department, the New Haven Fire Department, the Bridgeport Sound Tigers, the College Football Hall of Fame (including autographs by former Yale football coach Carm Cozza), the D.A.R.E. Program, Gymboree, the New Britain Parks and Recreation Department, Star 99.9 FM, the U.S. Army and the Yale Anti-Gravity Society.
The program is organized by the Athletic Department's Community Outreach Program and Youth Day Committee.
This year, the Athletics Department is again offering free admission to all five home football games to all regular Yale employees and their immediate families and to all Yale retirees and one guest.
Yale Athletics is also once again presenting Employee Day at the Bowl, a day of gridiron action, free food and give-aways, which is co-sponsored by the Department of Human Resource Services.
This year's celebration will take place on Saturday, Sept. 27, when the Bulldogs face the Cornell Big Red. Kick-off is at 1 p.m.
Prior to the game, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Yale employees and their guests can enjoy a picnic lunch of hot dogs, soda and cookies provided by Yale Dining Services in the Employee Food Tent located in the Hospitality Village across from Gate E (Portal 19).
Prizes will be raffled off at half-time.
On this day, and at all home games, University employees can get free general admission seating by showing their valid Yale I.D. at Gate E or Gate A (corner of Chapel Street and Yale Avenue). There is free parking in Lot D on Central Avenue.
"A Yale football game at the Bowl is a festive, colorful and exciting event," says Thomas Beckett, director of Yale Athletics. "We want to share all of this with the entire Yale community."
Football coach Jack Siedlecki adds, "Our players really appreciate the support of our home crowds, and Employee Day is a great opportunity for the Yale community to come together and enjoy an exciting Saturday afternoon in the Bowl."
For further information, call the ticket office at (203) 432-1400.
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