Word: olivar
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...Midwest end named Bob Jencks, who caught just about everything in sight. Pont has found no Jenckses at New Haven, and as the year has worn on the Dynamic New Offense has come to bebar a suspicious resemblance to the system used by the man Pont replaced, Jordan Olivar...
When Jordan Olivar suddenly resigned as Yale's head football coach last January, New Haven just as suddenly lost the services of its most successful pigskin mentor in modern history with no replacement in sight. Yesterday afternoon, a Yalie screening committee picked a virtual unknown, John Pont, from more than 100 applicants to succeed Olivar and lead the Bulldogs for the next three years...
Pont will have a tough time trying to match his predecessor's Yalie units. Olivar led the Bulldog varsity for 11 years--longer than any other coach in Yale history. Over that span he won more football games (61) than any New Haven coach since the days of Walter Camp who produced 67 victories for the Blue...
...Olivar's resignation "came as a surprise" to Yale officials and was not made public until two months after the end of last Fall's season. The former coach of the Elis reputedly wished to devote all of his energies to his private business in Los Angeles...
...Olivar was charged, therefore, with failing to win--more precisely, with failing to do all he could to produce a winning team. John Stiegman was released by Penn because he produced losers. These two actions, combined with the announced intentions of Brown, Dartmouth, and possibly others to intensify recruiting efforts, point towards an increased concern for better football in the League. There is growing reason to believe that the Ivies are deviating from their stated principles of intercollegiate athletics, which frown on heavy athletic emphasis. Hopefully, the trend is not permanent...