Former Yale Coach Carm Cozza has Passed

[Go Green]

Ivy Board reported the just news now.

Highly recommend his autobiography for any football fan.

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300080995/true-blue

[bulldog10jw]

I'm not ashamed to admit a tear came to my eye when I saw the news.

Not because the Yale community lost a former football coach, but because we lost a great man.

RIP, Carm

[Green26]

Cozza was a giant of the Ivy League. I never met him, but talked to him by phone several times when he recruited me. Friends of mine in the New Haven area were good friends of his, and always said wonderful things about him. I regret not having looked him up and met him in person over the years.

[bulldog10jw]

http://www.yalebulldogs.com/sports/m-footbl/2017-18/releases/20180104hlwwpp

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Walter Camp, the "Father of American football" shaped a new game into what we know today as football. Carmen Louis Cozza, the father figure to more than 2,000 Yale student-athletes from four different decades, molded young men into future leaders while serving as the head football coach at Yale for an amazing 32 seasons.
Cozza, a member of the College Football Hall of Fame, passed away today at the age of 87.

When Cozza took over the Yale program, Vince Lombardi was leading the Green Bay Packers to an NFL Championship and Lamar Hunt had not come up with the name "Super Bowl" for the championship of professional football. Future NFL star Calvin Hill '69 was a freshman on Yale's Old Campus.

[Son of Eli]

Nice piece from The Hartford Courant

http://www.courant.com/sports/hc-sp-carm-cozza-dies-20180104-story,amp.html

And an even better one from Yale:

http://www.yalebulldogs.com/sports/m-footbl/2017-18/releases/20180104hlwwpp

[Go Green]

Didn't realize that UNH tried to steal him. Wonder when that was....

[Son of Eli]

Didn't realize that UNH tried to steal him. Wonder when that was....

1965. Right before Yale hired him as Head Coach.

[Bill]

Saddened to hear of his passing.

[Go Lehigh TU Owl]

RIP Carm

Two giant losses recently, Cozza and Tubby....

[furpal87]

Sad to hear.. he and my late father were good friends and Yale was one of the great places for us to visit when Dad was scouting for the Browns (the rare occasion Yale had a big-time prospect). Went to 2 Harvard-Yale games but even though I was a kid he was always nice to me. Always had a soft spot for Yale because of him.

[bonarae]

RIP Carm.

[Son of Eli]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rh84XMTf9Hk&feature=youtu.be

[Ivytalk]

A class act in every way. RIP, Coach Cozza.

[Lehigh Football Nation]

RIP, Carm. One of the great college coaches.

[Lehigh Football Nation]

I was surprised to learn that Carm only faced off against Lehigh four times as a head coach in his illustrious career. Most of those years though Yale was considered a "major college" in the same breath as Notre Dame and Army and Navy, and thus didn't play the smaller colleges in the East like Lehigh until the Patriot League was formed.

[32counter]

Remembering Yale football coach Carm Cozza


https://youtu.be/s5_MM1Tq4xk



Carm Cozza Reminisces About His Good Times On The Yale Sidelines


https://youtu.be/rh84XMTf9Hk

[bulldog10jw]

I was surprised to learn that Carm only faced off against Lehigh four times as a head coach in his illustrious career. Most of those years though Yale was considered a "major college" in the same breath as Notre Dame and Army and Navy, and thus didn't play the smaller colleges in the East like Lehigh until the Patriot League was formed.

Carm had a big impact on Yale's scheduling. When the Ivy League first came into existence officially in 1956, Yale's 2 game OOC schedule was almost always UConn (every year) and Colgate (most years), although they did play Lehigh in '64 and Holy Cross in '67. Starting in 1976 Yale played Miami of Ohio, Rutgers, and Air Force. Once the 10 game schedule started in 1980, Army, Navy, Hawaii, and Boston College were scheduled.