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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
Confusion over Jordan's dismissal, while aggravated by the conflicting pressures of publicity and secrecy, largely seemed to stem from the lack of real definition of the College's role within the Ivy League. Football, as a sport designed to prove the superiority of eleven men over eleven other men, must be played by people who want to win. But the Ivy League, as constituted in theory, is a group of colleges interested in friendly, healthful competition which will be a source of recreation to those qualified to play. In view of obvious attempts by alumni of the institutions...
...come, for they are encouraged to give money when they taste the dust of Harvard Square on their tongues once again. They can hope for a Crimson victory; but we wish that they wouldn't expect it. Even the suggestion that Harvard alumni would consider a winning football eleven as continuing assurance that all is as fine as it ever was on the banks of the Charles is most discouraging. And the Boston newspapermen, in their wisdom, are sure that alumni were behind Jordan's dismissal...
...teaching," says he, "is not as good as it should be. In fact, some of it is poor. Also our research is not as good as it should be. There have been many bad comments about our dearth of research." Except for medicine, none of the university's eleven professional schools is in the front rank, and in spite of Pitt's traditional emphasis on engineering, it lags far behind its neighbor Carnegie Tech as a technological school. Adds Litchfield: "Our humanities and natural sciences are fairly strong. But the social sciences are weak. We have been grossly...
...Working the post-season game pitch for all it is worth, the Shriners put on two classic all-star contests. At Miami's Orange Bowl, a Northern eleven, led by Oklahoma's All-America Halfback Tommy McDonald and leaning heavily on the good passing arm of Purdue's Len Dawson, beat the pride of the South, 17-7. At San Francisco's Kezar Stadium, Stanford's All-America Passer John Brodie joined forces with U.S.C.'s Jon Arnett and U.C.L.A.'s Pete O'Garro to lead his Western teammates...