Intramurals: Undergraduate

Undergraduate Intramurals will begin play on September 9th; Schedules are now live (see below)

Corn Hole Schedule 

Flag Football Schedule

Pickleball Schedule 

RoundNet (Spikeball) Schedule

Soccer Schedule 

Table Tennis (Ping Pong) Schedule 

Fall Sports include: Outdoor Soccer, Flag Football, RoundNet (Spikeball), Corn Hole, Pickleball, and Table Tennis.

If you would like to get involved or learn more about how to join your College’s team, please contact your College Intramural Secretary. 

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Overall Standings 

The Yale Undergraduate Intramural program provides an outlet for athletic competition for the Yale community. 

Teams are organized through the residential colleges, allowing any student to play any one of the sports offered. While the goal of most athletes is to win the Tyng Cup, the award for excellence, the goals of the program stress the community of the residential colleges, the values of sportsmanship and fair play, and the lessons learned through competitive sports.

Undergraduate Intramurals are open to current Yale College students. 

Learn more about participant eligibility. 

Yale College students should connect with their college’s Intramural Secretary. 

Intramurals provide an opportunity for undergraduate students to participate in team and individual sports against other Yale college teams. The purpose of intramural sports is to provide exercise, recreation, socializations, light competition and fun to all levels of participants. The main differences between club sports and intramurals are that club athletes perform at a higher competitive and commitment level, host and travel to other universities to compete, and arrange their own practices, competitions, equipment, fundraising and budgets under the guidance of the Club Sports Office. Both programs, however, are largely student governed.

Awarded annually since 1933, the Tyng Cup is the most coveted of all Intramural Trophies. Each intramural contest played throughout the year is weighted with a number of Tyng Cup points equal to the number of athletes playing at one time. Hence, soccer games are worth 11 Tyng points and basketball games are worth 5. If a college wins a game, they are awarded that number of Tyng Cup Points. 

Yale Intramurals saw their beginning in the early 20th century. These early contests were designed for non-varsity athletes to compete in athletic competitions. The teams were mainly classes.

However, with the inauguration of the Residential College system in 1933, the Intramural program changed significantly. The teams changed from graduation classes to residential colleges in order to benefit from the closeness of the college communities. Also introduced during this year was the Tyng Cup, a gift from alumni George Adee, Sheldon Rose, and Malcolm Aldrich. The Tyng has been awarded annually since 1933 to the residential college that has won the greatest number of Tyng points at the end of the academic year.

The tradition of the Harkness Cup Games, or the Yale College-Harvard House Games, started in the fall of 1935. These games pit the champions of the two intramural programs against one another, usually the day before The Game. The winner of the most games is awarded the Harkness Cup Trophy, which incidentally was lost in the mid-1970s.

The Intramurals program is managed withing the Department of Campus Recreation, who governs the program, hires supervisors and referees, processes weekly payroll, develops sports and eligibility rules with the Yale College Intramural Secretaries (IM Secretaries) and Rules Committee, monitors safety, purchases equipment, is the liaison between the students and upper administration and oversees the execution of the program including facility acquisitions and weather decisions.

Crucial to the program is the Head Intramural Secretary, who is the student advisor to the Department of Campus Recreation. They are the scores statistician, game and facility scheduler along with chairing the IM Secretaries meetings and electing the Rules Committee, which decides upon all questions, protests and rules updates arising from and for Intramural contests.

On the field, Undergraduate Intramural are represented by a group called the Intramural Supervisors. This staff ensure that all games are run smoothly and answer to on-field problems such as rule queries, equipment problems, and injuries. Working underneath the Intramaul Supervisors are the Intramural Referees. Referees hold the on-field officiating power and work to make sure that the individual games run smoothly. They also record all necessary information pertaining to the game and report scores to the Head IM Secretary/Webmaster.

The main functional unit of the Undergraduate Intramural program is the residential college. Each of the 14 colleges fields a team for all current sports. The IM Secretaries run each college’s IM teams. The main goal of the IM Secretaries is to ensure that students within their college are participating in the intramural program. To achieve this goal, the secretaries name captains, organize IM study breaks, run sign-ups at the beginning of each season, and act as the liaison between the IM office and the residential college. Secretaries also attend a bi-weekly program meeting to discuss IM issues, which is chaired by the Head IM Secretary.