Sports|SPORTS PEOPLE: COLLEGE FOOTBALL; Harvard Hires Murphy
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TIM MURPHY , taking a pay cut to join the Ivy League, was hired as Harvard's coach yesterday. Murphy, Cincinnati's coach the past five years, replaces JOE RESTIC , who retired after 23 years as coach of the Crimson.
Murphy signed a five-year contract with Harvard for about $75,000 a season. His base salary at Cincinnati was a reported $111,996.
"The reason I coach is the reason most guys play in the Ivy League -- for the love of the game," Murphy said at a news conference. "I just felt Harvard was a unique opportunity that wasn't going to come along again for another 20 years."
Murphy, 37, had just completed an 8-3 season at Cincinnati, its best record since 1976 and first winning record since 1982. He had losing records in the previous four years and his overall mark was 17-37-1.
"It was awfully hard," Murphy said of leaving Cincinnati. "But in some ways, emotionally, I was like one of the graduating seniors. We'd accomplished exactly what we were hired to do." (AP)
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