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Just before all of you sat down for Thanksgiving dinner, Ray Tellier had his Last Supper. Tellier, the Columbia football coach who just completed his sixth consecutive losing season, was fired by the Lions athletic department brass last Tuesday...
Well, “fired” is never the right word in the Ivy League, and this is no exception. Tellier was “relieved” of his head coaching duties, and will remain with the athletic department in a yet-to-be-formulated capacity—the result of an agreement reached after Tellier’s shockingly successful 1996 season. (Columbia went 8-2 that year...
...Relieved” just might be the best word to describe Tellier. I covered three Harvard-Columbia games during my time as a Crimson writer, two in Cambridge and one in Manhattan. All three were Harvard romps. And all I could remember immediately after each game was just how depressing the postgame press conferences were...
Lions coach Ray Tellier, who has lost more than twice as many games as he has won during his tenure as Columbia’s head coach (41-88-2), and yet is one of the longest tenured coaches in the league (this is his 13th season at the helm). Guess Lombardi was wrong about winning being the only thing—at least at Columbia...
Just ask Hunsberger. Or ask Columbia coach Ray Tellier. Heck, you can even ask the cast of ESPN’s College GameDay, which will be giving this epic Ivy match-up national media exposure by broadcasting live from Penn’s Franklin Field this Saturday...