Yale apologizes over historic football game programs depicting old Dartmouth Indian mascot

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Combine the centennial Yale-Dartmouth football game, a game handout intending to show fans an array of historic football programs plucked from the days when the Granite State's Ivy League member boasted an Indian as a mascot, along with the timing of Columbus Day weekend, and you've got conditions that are ripe for campus outrage. A Yale Bulldog treeing an Indian after taking a chomp out of his sash depicted in a 1947 cover. A cover from 1944 showing a Yale football player

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Combine the centennial Yale-Dartmouth football game, a game handout intending to show fans an array of historic football programs plucked from the days when the Granite State's Ivy League member boasted an Indian as a mascot, along with the timing of Columbus Day weekend, and you've got conditions that are ripe for campus outrage. A Yale Bulldog treeing an Indian after taking a chomp out of his sash depicted in a 1947 cover. A cover from 1944 showing a Yale football player li…