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Monday, December 26, 2011

Yale's 1st Black Head Football Coach Defrauded His Claim to Fame

Former Yale coach, Tom Williams is facing incriminating allegations that he was not truthful on his resume in 1992 when he said he was a linebacker at Stanford.

The coach had never been a Rhodes scholar candidate or applicant, let alone a finalist, as he had let the world believe. He had told Yale he was a candidate with an entry on his résumé. His biography on the Yale Web site said the same thing.

Yale, which had undertaken an internal review to investigate Williams’s Rhodes scholarship assertion after an article in The New York Times raised doubts about its legitimacy, announced that the coach had resigned.

In a news release from the university, Williams said he had been encouraged to apply for a Rhodes scholarship while at Stanford, but never did so:

Read full story here: http://www.atoast2wealth.com/2011/12/26/yales-1st-black-head-football-coach-d...

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