Carmen Louis "Carm" Cozza (June 10, 1930 – January 4, 2018) was an

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and

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player and coach of football. He served as the head football coach at

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from 1965 to 1996, winning ten

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championships and compiling a record of 179–119–5. Cozza was named UPI New England Coach of the Year four times and Eastern Coach of the Year. He was inducted into the

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as a coach in 2002.

Biography

Cozza, the son of Italian immigrants, played

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under coaches

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and

Woody Hayes Wayne Woodrow "Woody" Hayes (February 14, 1913 – March 12, 1987) was an American college football coach and player. He served as the head football coach at Denison University from 1946 to 1948, Miami University in Oxford, Ohio from 1949 to 195 ...

, graduating from Miami in 1952. He was teammates with

Bo Schembechler Glenn Edward "Bo" Schembechler Jr. ( ; April 1, 1929 – November 17, 2006) was an American college football player, coach, and athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Miami University from 1963 to 1968 and at the Univers ...

. While at

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he was a member of

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International Fraternity. He also played baseball at Miami, and later played for minor league affiliates of the

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and

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. Cozza was an assistant football coach at Miami from 1956 to 1962 under his fellow Miami alumnus and former teammate,

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. When Pont was named head coach at Yale in 1963, Cozza accompanied him there. Cozza became head coach at Yale in 1965 after Pont accepted the head coaching job at

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. Cozza died on January 4, 2018, age 87.

Head coaching record

References

External links

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Cradle of Coaches Archive: A Legacy of Excellence - Carm Cozza
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Biography

Head coaching record

See also

References

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