2014 Football

30 Tyler Varga

  • Height 5-11
  • Weight 220
  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Kitchener, Ontario
  • Highschool Cameron Heights Collegiate

Biography

2013: Honorable Mention All-Ivy League despite missing four games... Started first five games, missed following four with injury... Returned for Harvard but was injured in first half... Career-high 236 yards on 39 carries against Colgate (3rd best at Yale)... Averaged 104.5 yds per games... His 641 yards were fourth in Ivy... Had 125 carries and one TD... Earned CFPA, BSN, and College Sports Madness honors for his performance against Colgate... Ivy Honor Roll against Cal-Poly... CFPA Second-Team Pre-Season FCS All-America... CFPA "Watch List" for FCS Performer of Year... Named to two pre-season All-America teams and numerous all-league squads... 

2012: The Sports Network Second-Team All-America as "all-purpose" player... HM bsncollege.com FCS All-America at RB... First-Team All-Ivy... First-Team All-New England... Led nation with 194.2 all-purpose yards per game while playing RB, QB and returning kickoffs... Led Ivy League with 116.9 rushing average and five games with 100 yards or more... Rushed for eight TDs and caught one scoring pass to lead team with 54 points... Averaged 23.6 on KOR... Played 8 of 10 games... Set Yale rushing record for a QB with 220 yards on 25 carries at Columbia.

Before Yale: Was a freshman at University of Western Ontario in 2011… Team MVP… Conference and CIS National Freshman of the Year… Led nation in scoring… Yale Class of 2015… At Cameron Heights Collegiate: Played five positions … Scored over 100 TDs … Four-time team MVP… Played on the 2010 Provincial All-Star Team and was named the most valuable high school football player in Canada… 2010 NUC Combines Regional MVP, Ultimate 100 Player and All-World Game selection… Selected to the 2011 and 2012 U20 World and 2012 Jr. National U20 football teams… Multiple athlete of the year honors… Also competed in track & field, basketball and swimming... Owns regional long jump and shot put records and the 2007 100m title... Graduated from the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program with a 4.0 GPA… Extensive competitive history in AAA baseball, all-star football and alpine ski-racing.

Personal: John Tyler Varga is the son of Hannele Sundberg and John Varga … Born in Sweden … Speaks three languages … Parents are accomplished athletes...Berkeley College resident...Interested in pursuing a career in medicine.

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Historical Player Information

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    2012Sophomore

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    2013Junior

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    2014Junior

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