Word: olivar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yale coach Jordan Olivar started this wrangling by complaining that Princeton had deliberately run up the score, in defeating his team, 50-14, last weekend. Dick Colman, the Princeton coach, therupon produced some elaborate statistics to show how little the first Tiger team had played in the contest, and graciously asserted that "we could have put in our freshman 'B-squad' and still torn them apart." Understandably, this remark did not set too well down at New Haven...
Yovicsin was referring to Yale's humiliating 50-14 loss to the Tigers last week. Almost everyone in New Haven is upset about that debacle, most of all Eli coach Jordan Olivar, who voiced objections to the press concerning Princeton's "piling up" of the score. He and his players will be going all out to salvage a small bit of their season when they face the Crimson Saturday on Soldiers Field...
...Harvard football team, remembering last year's 54-0 loss at New Haven, was somewhat amused by Olivar's complaint, for Yale has never been known to call off its agents while they were in the process of inflicting humiliation on a traditional rival...
...Haven's hopes that Princeton's loss of center Mike Iseman and second-string tailback Jack Sullivan would give the Bulldogs more of a fighting chance this Saturday were dashed last night. Yale coach Jordan Olivar announced that Mike Pyle, star center, and Dick Coleman, considered by many to be Yale's best quarterback, will not be able to play in the Princeton contest...
...players were injured in last week's game with Penn. Coach Olivar said that their injuries were not responding to treatment in time. Pyle, a very promising sophomore who may go up for all-Ivy honors this year, is being treated for a shoulder injury...