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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?...
Columbia Athletic Director John Reeves told the Spectator that the ideal candidate would offer the right blend of competence and character “with a slight edge to character.” Some win-starved Lions fans weren’t even happy with that. One fan went to...
Harvard coach Tim Murphy told the New York Times that Tellier’s firing was surprising, and that the Columbia job was “challenging.” He declined to elaborate on what that meant, but the possibilities include the fact that the Lions’ athletic...
“He’s just as big as a house and extremely athletic,” Fadule said. “But his biggest asset is that when he plays, he plays extremely confident. He thinks he can beat anyone out there, and he plays mean.?...