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Ivy league's Pioneering Coaching Pair Spotlight Progress, Problems

By David SteeleNov 1st 2009 – 4:00PM

NEW YORK -- Neither Norries Wilson nor Tom Williams had circled the date when, respectively, the Columbia and Yale football schedules had come out. But Dr. Keith Harrison had. So when two African-American coaches met in an Ivy League game for the first time ever on Saturday, Harrison -- the associate director of the...

Background on Norries Wilson

Norries Wilson was the 18th head coach of the Columbia University football team, and the first African-American head football coach in the Ivy League.

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