Word: olivar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tigers, Jim Lopez, up to then a second string paser in a first string backfield, suddenly won a ball game. Since then Eli hopes have been high, and the new found confidence of Lopez, coupled with the probable return of Molloy, have made the task of sophomore coach Jordan Olivar a good deal easied. But no Yale manager will play today...
Various injury reports, ranging from Lopez's left hand to Olivar's ulcers have filtered out of New Haven in the great old Yale tradition. But medical reports and publicity man Charlie Loftus to the contrary, it is a reasonable assumption that most of the Yale team that started last week will start again today...
Molloy probably won't be back for the rest of the year, according to both the doctors and Jordan Olivar. And what old Blues feared after he was injured has happened--his sucessor, Jim Lopez, just hasn't shown the passing accuracy that Yale must depend on. Lopez has helped the Elis defensively, but probably right now Olivar would trade all of last year's defensive platoon for a small, slow, little man like Carroll Lowenstein, with a sturdy accurate arm like Lowenstein...
There are other problem for Olivar. One has been finding a place for Yale captain Joe Fortunato. Fortunato, a clever hard tackling linebacker last year just hasn't been able to make the transition to the game of one platoon. He isn't a shifty runner, and he can't play the line...
...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...