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...reported last October that Jordan Olivar had coached his last team at Yale, and stories from New Haven Monday confirmed our information. Faced with the option of leaving his lucrative California insurance business or resigning his coaching job, Olivar chose to devote himself to money making...
Despite the fact that Olivar was one of the most successful football mentors in Eli history, persistent rumors of alumni disenchantment have circulated for the past two years. While the Bulldogs were compiling impressive records, no one, as Olivar pointed out Monday, seriously questioned his winter-time insurance work. But with the collapse of Yale supremacy following the unbeaten season in 1960, there have been charges that Olivar's part-time dedication to New Haven's grid fortunes has materially contributed to the lack-luster quality of Eli teams. The last two losses to Harvard caused considerable pressure...
Some critics merely said Olivar was unable to keep in close enough contact with the development of the squad and that this had created numerous morale difficulties. At the close of the 1961 season Olivar himself acknowledged that considerable dissension existed on the squad, but attributed it to the disappointing season...
...main objection to Olivar's insurance business, however, was that it seriously interfered with his recruiting (or persuasion) duties. When the playing season ends, the recruiting season commences, even in the Ivy League. The recruiting season is often more hectic and frantic than the fall months devoted exclusively to football. Olivar's assistants were required to handle recruiting when the chief was in California, and there was a feeling at Yale that they couldn't do a complete job of selling high schoolers on the benefits of New Haven without the head coach...
...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...