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Olivar, after six years as head coach at Loyola, went into the insurance under-writing business last year but took over as successor to Herman Hickman on a temporary basis this fall...
Molloy, five foot nine inch junior from Fairfield, Connecticut, has come a long way since the last two minutes of the 1951 Yale game. At that time, he had just set up the Crimson's third touchdown with a sloppy pass into the flat; rotund Herman Hickman sent Molloy into the game with this advice--"you pitch 'em out kid, and I'll start heading out of town." Molloy did indeed "pitch 'em out," connecting for four of five for 65 yards and a touchdown. And although Hickman has since left town, Molloy is still pitching them...
...falls in love with a woman he can't knock down with the first punch." After Korea, he reported that "combat soldiers are the loneliest people in the world. What a man does in a period of war he carries around inside of him forever." When Herman Hickman, Yale's 300-lb. football coach resigned, Cannon began a column: "There is enough room in one of Herman Hickman's suits for an average fullback to work the hidden-ball trick with a Shetland pony...
During the four years he coached at Yale (his record: 16 wins, 18 losses, 2 ties), Hickman was in great demand as an after-dinner speaker. He claims to have made more money speaking than coaching ("between $12,000 and $15,000 a year...
...into TV by showing a high I.Q. as a panel member on CBS's Celebrity Time. Last year he had his own radio show. This year, Yale decided that its coaches, before appearing on radio or TV, would have to show just how the program would benefit Yale. Hickman thus faced the hard decision of tearing up his ten-year contract as football coach or turning down his TV sponsor, Robert Burns cigars. He chose Robert Burns and quit Yale with a typical quip: "When you're being run out of town, get at the head...