Word: mahar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...season long there had been whispers that popular first year coach Buddy Mahar was too easy going and, if anything, had a little too much rapport with his players. Mahar must have reached the same conclusion because he decided to crack down. He benched Byrd, Davie Fields and Free who had started every game for the last three years, for the first 11:49 of the Yale game. The trio was benched because they had been six minutes late to a team meeting earlier...
After the loss, Byrd, the team captain, told a New York Post reporter that the team was riddled with dissension and the story broke the next day under a banner headline. Mahar and the rest of the Columbia team denied that there was any disharmony...
...drama reached Wagnerian proportions on Tuesday when the Lions faced Fordham in Morningside Heights. Mahar had been assistant to Tom Penders, who left Columbia at the end of last year to become head coach of the Fordham Rams. Penders was now returning for the first time to face the squad he had built from scratch...
...coach Buddy Mahar summed up Nilson's performance quickly and neatly: "He was great." Nilson on the other had had a little more to say about the game...
...Mahar is optimistic about the remaining 11 games on the schedule. "There is good team spirit, the whole team's out for practice everyday and everybody's working hard," he said. "We should have a pretty good year...