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AROUND THE QUADS

ROAR LION ROAR

FOOTBALL: Columbia’s football team, hopeful of getting a fast start next season under new coach Norries Wilson, should benefit from playing its first four games at home. The Lions will open with defense of the Liberty Cup against Fordham on September 16 and follow with three more games at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium at Baker Field. Columbia will face Georgetown for the first time since 1901 on September 23, followed by Homecoming and the Ivy League opener against Princeton on September 30. The Lions’ first-ever game against Iona on October 7 completes the home run before Columbia takes to the road for four of its last six outings.

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SOCCER COACH: Leo Chappel has been named Columbia’s men’s soccer coach. Chappel was the top assistant at UC Santa Barbara, which compiled a 21–2–2 record and reached the NCAA championship game in 2004, when Chappel was named 2004 National Soccer Coaches Association of America West Region Assistant Coach of the Year.

Chappel is only the Lions’ fifth head coach since 1957, when soccer was reinstituted as a varsity program at Columbia after a 41-year hiatus. He replaces Dieter Ficken, who retired in January after 27 years as head coach.

INFLUENTIAL: William V. Campbell ’62, former chairman of Intuit and present chairman of the University Board of Trustees, and Robert K. Kraft ’63, owner of the NFL’s New England Patriots and lead benefactor of the Kraft Family Center for Jewish Student Life, were among the NCAA’s 100 Most Influential Student-Athletes as announced by the governing body of college athletics. Campbell captained the Lions’ 1961 Ivy championship team and also coached the Lions from 1974–79, while Kraft played freshman football and varsity lightweight football for Columbia.

The list was based on those “who have made a significant impact or major contributions to society.”

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