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Jordan's successor as Harvard football coach is expected to be named shortly. The Faculty Committee on Athletics, while recommending Jordan's release, had also suggested backfield coach "Josh" Williams as his replacement. To date, the Corporation has taken no action on this recommendation, and has remained silent about this and other possible suggestions...
...Corporation meets this morning at 9:30 and will consider the recommendation that the remaining two years of Jordan's contract be bought up, and he be replaced by his backfield coach, also here since...
Williams, who is also golf coach here, is believed likely to be offered a one-year contract. Like Jordan, he graduated from the University of Pittsburgh. He was a back in the late twenties, and he has also served as backfield coach at Florida, Temple, and Pitt...
...order to make use of all his backs, Jordan unveiled this year an offense which he had first used at Amherst--the A-formation. This system uses the familiar unbalanced line to the right, with a T-formation backfield. One of the chief advantages of this attack seemed to be that it allowed the Crimson to shift quickly to its old single-wing style...
...Just for kicks a pair of Pitt publicity men fed data on the upcoming game with Penn State into a mechanical brain-backfield speed, linemen's weight, comparative scores, even the years of tenure of each head coach. The "Type 650 Magnetic Drum Processing" machine digested the facts, hummed, clicked, calculated that each side of the equation could be evaluated by the figure 1. This, the P.R. men decided sadly, meant that the game would end in a tie. It did: Pitt 7, Penn State...