Cozza was famous for coaching Calvin Hill and Brian Dowling in the 1968 29-29 "loss" to Harvard. Hill went on to a distinguished 12-year career in the NFL and Dowling was the inspiration for the Doonesbury character B.D. From Cozza's obit in the Times (my emphasis):
Cozza’s head-coaching debut at the Yale Bowl was inauspicious, however: a loss to Connecticut. Afterward, Charley Loftus, Yale’s sports information director, remarked that Cozza had received a telegram from the alumni association saying: “There’s a train leaving for New York at 4 o’clock. Be under it.”
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