Coaching legend Cozza dead at 87

Carmen “Carm” Cozza, who coached Yale to 10 Ivy League football titles over 32 years as well as the famed 29-29 tie with Harvard, died Thursday. He was 87.

Cozza coached the Bulldogs from 1965 to 1996 and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2002. He retired as the winningest coach in Ivy League history, with a career record of 179-119-5, including an undefeated 1968 season that ended in a 29-29 tie with Harvard.

Harvard scored 16 points in the final minute for the tie. The headline in the Harvard Crimson student newspaper read, “Harvard Beats Yale, 29-29.” Cozza called the outcome “devastating” — the “worst loss of my life, even though it was a tie.”

Cozza had 19 winning seasons at Yale and between 1974 and 1981 won seven of eight Ivy crowns.

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