Yale Football Coach Resigns After Faulty Rhodes Scholarship Claim

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Yale football coach Tom Williams resigned Wednesday amid a probe by the university into whether he lied on his resume about being a candidate for a prestigious Rhodes scholarship, the New Haven Register reported.
Williams said last month that when he was a senior linebacker at Stanford in 1992 he was a candidate for a Rhodes scholarship, but passed up the opportunity in favor of an NFL tryout.
He spoke on the issue while Yale quarterback Patrick Witt, a Rhodes finalist, debated whether to play in the season finale against archrival Harvard or miss the game for an interview that would determine if he obtained the scholarship.

Witt opted to play in the Nov. 19 game, which Yale lost 45-7.
Williams, who turns 42 Thursday, listed on his resume submitted to Yale that he had been a Rhodes finalist.
The university launched an inquiry after The New York Times reported that the Rhodes Trust, which finances the scholarship, had no record of Williams ever applying for the scholarship.
The result of the inquiry has not been made public. Williams, in a statement announcing his decision, sought to explain the discrepancy.