Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard's twenty-first football coach may be named at today's meeting of the Corporation, the first since Lloyd P. Jordan was dismissed two weeks...
Solemn and scholarly, Harvard's Faculty Committee on Athletic Sports convened in Cambridge to consider the portentous fact that in six years under Head Coach Lloyd Jordan, 56, the Crimson football team has won only 24 games while losing 31 and tying three. Few men in the room knew a crossbuck from an Eliot House chambermaid. Only Associate Dean Robert Blake Watson had had direct contact with the game (as a scrub on the 1936 squad which won 3, lost 4). The rest of the committee included four Ph.D.s (a Russian-born chemist plus professors of Greek literature, economics...
American Football Coaches Association took a sharp slap at the University Friday by an unprecendented commendation of recently dismissed football coach Lloyd Paul Jordan...
...unofficial statements, Lloyd Jordan has been accused by members of the Faculty Committee on Athletics of "poor teaching." If any place needs good teaching, all surely agree, it is a university community. But what, in terms of Harvard football, is "good teaching"? If it means that Jordan was not a good moral leader, or his attitude toward emphasis of the game was not attuned to that of the College, it should say so. By buying off Jordan at $25,000, the Corporation is making football seem like a very important activity in Harvard life. Does the Committee's accusation reflect...
Alumni traditionally hold banquet meetings, to which they invite all the promising, prospective Harvardmen. Lloyd Jordan felt bluntly that money many of these should promise to play ball if they wanted to be prospective Harvardmen. He was wrong. If Harvard is an educational institution, it must make education its only aim; football, as University Hall has stated it, is a complement to education because, as everyone knows, "A healthy body means a healthy mind." But to say, "Charlie, my boy, you'll have time for ball and studies, too," is to say that football to some people can be just...