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Without much happening right now, today featured a whirlwind trip around the Ivy League football websites to pull together a list detailing the most coaching wins and highest winning percentage at each school since the start of formal Ivy League play in 1956. Again, this is overall wins.
BROWN
Most wins: 115 Phil Estes (1998-2018)
Best win percentage over four or more seasons: .603 John Anderson 60-39-3 (1973-83)
COLUMBIA
Most wins: 42 Ray Tellier (1989-2002)
Best win percentage over four or more seasons: .500 Al Bagnoli 35-35 (2015-present)
CORNELL
Most wins: 45 Jim Hofher (1990-98); Jack Musick (1966-75)
Best win percentage over four or more seasons: .574 Jack Musick (1966-75)
DARTMOUTH
Most wins: 151 Buddy Teevens (1987-91, 2005-present)
Best win percentage over four or more seasons: .748 Bob Blackman 101-31-3 (1956-70)*
HARVARD
Most wins: 191 Tim Murphy (1994-present)
Best win percentage over four or more seasons: .687 Tim Murphy 191-87 (1994-present)
PENN
Most wins: 148 Al Bagnoli (1992-2014)
Best win percentage over four or more seasons: .649 Al Bagnoli 148-80 (1992-2014)
PRINCETON
Most wins: 78 Steve Tosches (1987-99)
Best win percentage over four or more seasons: .609 Steve Tosches 78-50-2; .608 Bob Surace 73-47 (2010-present)
YALE
Most wins: 179 Carm Cozza (1965-96)
Best win percentage over four or more seasons: .600 Tony Reno 60-40 2012-present); .599 Carm Cozza (1965-96)
* Does not include Blackman’s 3-6 record in 1955.
A few observations . . .
• With a look ahead to this fall, Princeton's Bob Surace very well could pass Steve Tosches for most overall wins in the Ivy League era, and he has the best win percentage in his sights.
• Yale's Tony Reno could not hold a slimmer lead over legendary Carm Cozza for overall winning percentage, as surprising as that might be to a lot of Yalies. That one could go back-and-forth for a few years, but don't look for Reno to challenge Cozza's all-time win total.
• Al Bagnoli holds the winning percentage record at both Penn and Columbia and is seven wins away from Ray Tellier's overall win total with the Lions.
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Missing the four-year cutoff is Ed Zubrow, who won at a .767 clip at Penn, going 23-7 between 1986 and '88. He stepped down after just three seasons at Penn (10-0, 4-6, 9-1) to become a special assistant to the Philadelphia schools superintendent with a focus on substance abuse and dropout prevention. (
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Where is Zubrow today? At age 72 he's still coaching, but most definitely not on the football field. From an online bio (
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Ed "Zeke" Zubrow received his 200 hour RYT through Yoga Alliance in 2015 following training with Dana Lincoln at Prasada Yoga Center in North Hampton, N.H. A former college football coach, he views yoga as a discipline for reducing self-limiting, self-defeating thoughts. Using the physical practice of asanas (forms) we develop strength, flexibility and, most important, the ability to breathe effectively and calm the mind. Everybody has a "yoga body," and there is a style of yoga for everybody. Depending on the student, practice can be vigorous or slower paced. In all cases, Zeke's goal is for practice to become a moving meditation, with the yoga mat a haven and a place to explore. Zeke is interested in the ways all aspects of yoga can extend beyond the mat and influence our daily lives and community.
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EXTRA POINT
Ordered a new MacBook Air last night. If you know me, you know it was painful spending the money, but my current Air, which has been a trouper, is almost nine years old and hasn't been playing nice for the past year or so. That's understandable given that it is my full-time work machine and has an awful lot of miles on its odometer.
Well aware of the frustration I've been feeling with the laptop, Mrs. BGA and The Certain Two have been pushing me to finally pull the trigger on a new one. My thought was, "This one is still working, so why spend the money?" In the end Mrs. BGA's warning about what kind of disaster it would be if the computer went kaput during the football season won out.
Barring a delivery issue the new machine should be here by week's end. Then comes the task of setting it up without moving all kinds of cruft I don't want or need over from the old one. While I look forward to a faster and more dependable laptop I'm not looking forward to that task . . . and sorry, but I'm still not happy about spending the money.
