Handsome Dan VII had the makings of the greatest mascot in Yale's history when he first entered the Eli football picture in the fall of 1950. But he proved a colossal failure. Not that he was ...

Starting Friday there will be shown at the University Theatre for four days an exclusive Paramount newsreel containing shots of Handsome Dan ... the departure of the Yale mascot for New Haven.

Since 1892, when a Yale student showed up at a sporting event with his pet bulldog, Handsome Dan, it is not uncommon ...

He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @derekgxiao. Yale mascot Handsome Dan, pictured here at last year's Harvard–Yale game in New Haven, has yet to see the Bulldogs ...