Another Coach Probed for Inflated Credentials
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By DERON SNYDER
Tom Williams must be a pretty smart guy, having climbed the ranks to become Yale’s first black football coach and the Ivy League’s second. According to the school’s website, he graduated from Stanford with honors and later earned a master’s degree there.
But the bio also says he was a “Rhodes Scholar candidate,” and that line is now under review.
The claim, from Williams’ résumé, isn’t new. But it became newsworthy last week when Yale quarterback Patrick Witt chose to play in “the Game” — Harvard versus Yale — instead of flying to Atlanta for his Rhodes finalist’s interview. Numerous news stories referred to Williams as a former Rhodes finalist who skipped his interview to attend a minicamp with the San Francisco 49ers.
