Yale Model Congress Yale Model Congress Yale Model Congress (YMC) is the oldest entirely student-run Model Congress association in the Ivy League. Every year, it brings hundreds of delegates to Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut to simulate the United States Congress. Founded in 1993 by members of the Yale Political Union, Yale Model Congress is an annual, four-day-long event, now held in early December. During the conference, high school delegates participate in one of approximately thirty committees, chaired by Yale undergraduates. The delegates prepare bills prior to the conference, and each student is given the chance to debate his or her bill
Yale Bulldogs baseball On July 23, 1868, Yale played its first championship game as an invitational against Harvard University, in which it lost 25-17. On June 5, 1869, Harvard visited Brooklyn and defeated Yale 41-24. Harvard would continue to dominate Yale in the Ivy League baseball conference, but Yale won two games in 1874. In 1928, Yale Field was built to house the Yale baseball program. Yale's first game in their new stadium was played in 1928 against the Eastern League New Haven Professionals. The first pitch was thrown by Mayor Tower of New Haven. The result of the game was a 12-0