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...Corporation dismissed Lloyd P. Jordan from his position as football coach yesterday, but did not act to name his successor...
...Thomas D. Bolles, chairman of the Faculty Committee on Athletic Sports, has announced that the President and Fellows of Harvard College, acting on the recommendation of the Faculty Committee, have today terminated Mr. Lloyd Jordan's appointment as coach of football...
Thus ended Jordan's seven-year tenure as Harvard's twentieth head coach, a term in which his teams compiled a record of 24 wins, 31 losses, and 3 ties. While in 1956 the Crimson eleven had only a 2 and 6 record, three of his other squads had winning records, and the 1954 team beat Yale and Princeton for the first time since 1941. He is the third straight football coach released before the expiration of his agreement with the University...
Yesterday's 40-word statement from the Corporation announcing Lloyd Jordan's dismissal as football coach probably received, both before and after the fact, more publicity, than any administrative decision in recent years. Its subject was of popular interest, because all Americans love football; but the outcry it raised was multiplied many more times over by understandable confusion in the public mind over just what sort of football the Crimson wants to play. Before a new coach accepts Jordan's position, he will want to know the rules of the game here; so do we fans...
...inside for the CRIMSON's Friday Extra and a discussion of the reasons for the recommendation to dismiss Jordan, his record as coach, and reaction to the proposal...