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When Yale head football coach John Pont left New Haven for the more fertile fields of Big Ten football, the Yale Athletic Association did not have to look far for a successor. Within three weeks, backfield coach Carmen Cozza, a long time friend and associate of Pont, was named to the post...
...Cozza roomed with Pont for four years at Miami of Ohio, played quarterback when his roommate was setting a school rushing record at halfback, and was Pont's top assistant at both Miami and Yale. The style of football played at the Bowl this season, then, is much the same as spectators saw in Harvard Stadium last year, with slight variations due to changes in personnel...
Like Pont, Cozza would much rather establish a sound ground game than go to the air. He prefers to pass only to keep defenses honest, especially this season when the Elis have lacked a consistent quarterback...
...beginning of the year, Yale operated out of the basic split-T with an end split ten yards to one side and a halfback flanked to the other side. Soon, however, Cozza and his staff realized that opposing teams were concentrating their defenses on the side of Yale's tight end, where most of the running plays were directed. This concentration combined with the loss of powerful fullback Chuck Mercein virtually neutralized the Yale ground game during the first part of the season...
...counteract the moves of the defenses, Cozza has tried a variety of formations, some with more success than others...