The term 'Yale WHALE Players' refers to the members of the Yale University men's ice hockey team. The team is nicknamed the 'WHALE' after the school's mascot, the bulldog. The crossword solutions for this term are ELIS, which stands for the ELIS of Yale, the official nickname of the Yale Bulldogs. The Yale WHALE Players are a part of the NCAA Division I Hockey East conference and have won two national championships in their history.