Brian Dowling was the starting quarterback of the Yale University football team in the late 1960s. He set, and held for decades, a number of Yale passing records. The quarterback is a position in the offensive backfield of American and Canadian football, directly behind players of the line. He is generally the leader of the offensive team when it is on the field, responsible for initiating play by receiving the snap of the ball from the center. ... Jump to: navigation, search For other uses, see Yale (disambiguation). ... United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ...

The 1968 team was undefeated and heavily favored going into The Game against Harvard University, but after trailing 29–13 with less than a minute remaining, Harvard rallied to tie the game, which ended with a score of 29–29. In Cambridge the game is remembered as the greatest Ivy League game ever played, though New Haveners continue to harbor some disappointment. Dowling at that point had not lost a game he started since the sixth grade, a streak he was able to preserve, technically, by virtue of the tie. The Game (always capitalized) is a title used to describe several college football rivalry games, but most particularly the annual game between the Harvard University Crimson and the Yale University Bulldogs or Elis. The Game is an annual event, which for many years has alternated between Harvard Stadium and the... Jump to: navigation, search Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... Jump to: navigation, search City Hall - Cambridge MA Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Ivy League is an athletics association, founded in 1954, of eight universities located in the eastern United States. ... This article is about the city in Connecticut. ...

Dowling played briefly in the National Football League for the New England Patriots and Green Bay Packers. He scored two touchdowns over his three-year professional career. Jump to: navigation, search The National Football League (NFL) is the largest professional American football league, consisting of thirty-two teams from American cities. ... Jump to: navigation, search Conference AFC Division East Year Founded 1960 Home Field Gillette Stadium City Foxborough, Massachusetts Team Colors Blue, Red, Silver, and White Head Coach Bill Belichick League Championships (3) Super Bowl: 2001 (XXXVI), 2003 (XXXVII), 2004 (XXXIX) Conference Championships (5) AFC: 1985, 1996, 2001, 2003, 2004 Division... Jump to: navigation, search Note: Basketball teams from Chicago and Anderson once used the name Packers as well. ... Jump to: navigation, search A touchdown is the primary method of scoring in American and Canadian football, in which the ball carrier causes the football to break the plane of the end zone, or an eligible receiver catches a forward pass in the end zone, thus earning 6 points for...

The character B.D., in the Doonesbury comic strip, was originally based on Dowling, a Yale classmate of cartoonist Gary Trudeau. Doonesbury was featured on the cover of the Feb. ...

External links

• The story of The Game, 1968, by Ted Mandell.
• Dowling's professional statistics at databasefootball.com