Carmen Cozza
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Carmen Louis "Carm" Cozza (born June 10, 1930, Parma, Ohio) was the head football coach at Yale University from 1965 to 1996, winning ten Ivy League championships. He is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame. His lifetime record as head coach at Yale is 179-119-5. Cozza was named UPI New England Coach of the Year four times and Eastern Coach of the Year.
Cozza, the son of Italian immigrants, played quarterback at Miami University under coaches Ara Parseghian and Woody Hayes, graduating from Miami in 1952. He also played baseball at Miami, and later played for minor league affiliates of the Cleveland Indians and Chicago White Sox. He became an assistant football coach at Miami from 1956-62 under John Pont. When Pont was named head coach at Yale in 1965, Cozza accompanied him there. Cozza was named head coach at Yale in 1965 after Pont accepted the head coaching job at Indiana University.
| Preceded by John Pont |
Yale University Head Football Coach 1965-1996 |
Succeeded by Jack Siedlecki |
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