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...Navarro's presence has not proved a magical elixir to the win-thirsty Tigers whose record on the eve of today's contest with the Crimson is 1-3-1. Navarro has been trying to implement the much-vaunted veer offense at Princeton and the fifteen starters returning from last year's team have been sorely taxed to memorize the new series...
...post at Old Nassau is Navarro's secong gig in the Ivy League. From 1968-1973 he was head coach of Columbia. Navarro first came to Columbia as a graduate student in 1955 and served his coaching apprenticeship with the legendary Lou Little. He soloed as a head coach at Williams from 1963-1967. When the Ephmen went 7-0-1 in 1967, he was voted New England College Coach of the Year. Having returned to Columbia in 1968, Navarro's career reached its zenith in 1971 when the Lions went 6-3, only the third winning Columbia season since...
...with most of his Cinderella eleven returning in 1972, Navarro was expected to lead Columbia to an Ivy League title. Instead the Lions stumbled to a 3-5-1 mark, and a despondent Navarro found himself at Baker Field with emotions similar to those of John Keats when he penned "the sedge is wither'd and no birds sing...
...Navarro became disenchanted at Columbia because he believed he had to spend too much time on publicity, paperwork and recruiting, which was hamstringing his coaching performance on the field. By mutual consent, Navarro left Columbia in 1973 and, passing up offers to become an assistant coach in the pro ranks, he became head coach of tiny Wabash College in Indiana...
...Before Navarro mosied down to Wabash, the Little Giants, so called because the school regularly plays against much larger competitors, had not had a winning season in ten years...