Deadspin: Tom Williams

New York Times: College Football Is In Crisis, What With The Resume Padding And Child Rape And Things Like That

Tom Scocca — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:19:05 EST

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Today's New York Times writes up the resignation of Yale football coach Tom Williams, caught in a resume-padding scandal after he claimed to have been a former Rhodes Scholarship finalist. A two-bylined investigation by the Times in November, as Yale quarterback Patrick Witt was dropping out of the Rhodes process so he wouldn't miss the Harvard game, found no evidence that Williams had applied for a Rhodes at all. That prompted an internal inquiry at Yale, which led to Williams stepping down. More »

Yale Doesn't Want Vince Lombardi Coaching Its Football Team

Jack Dickey — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:45:00 EST

Or his analogue Tom Williams, who was canned by Eli today for padding his résumé, just like Lombardi had. Lombardi didn't correct claims that he had gone to law school. Williams had said he was a Rhodes scholar finalist—he was not—and he had said he played on the 49ers practice squad—he had not. More »

Yale's Football Coach, Like Vince Lombardi, May Have Padded His Academic Resume

Tom Scocca — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:19:52 EST

Yale quarterback Patrick Witt's conflict with the Rhodes Scholarship organization this week has also drawn attention to the scholarly credentials of the school's football coach, Tom Williams. So far, the New York Times has devoted two stories—with two reporters working on each—to investigating whether Williams ever was a Rhodes Scholarship finalist himself: More »

Bloodgate Widens: Doctor Admits Slicing Player's Lip To Fake Injury

Barry Petchesky — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:55:00 EDT

In a sport with limited substitutions, what's a rugby union side to do when they need to make a late change? Why, use a fake blood capsule, and get the team doctor to cut him. Of course. More »

Yale Football Coach Out-Crazies Bill Belichick

Dashiell Bennett — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:30:22 EST

Since our nation wasted approximately 82 million man-hours of productivity last week arguing about that stupid fourth-and-two, it's a bit surprising that we the people aren't more enraged by Yale's Tom Williams for raising the stakes for bonehead coaches everywhere. More »

And It Only Took Them 307 Years

Rick Chandler — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:30:25 EST

Hey Bulldog: Former Jacksonville Jaguars assistant Tom Williams is hired at Yale, becoming the school's first black head football coach. [Hartford Courant] More »