BLUE-COLLAR COACH IN A BUTTON-DOWN LEAGUE
Kent Hannon
January 02, 1978
Pete Carril looks dumpy, smokes stogies and hangs around a seedy bar, but with a 190-81 basketball record at Princeton, he does not need an Ivy image
Despite Carril's endless complaining that nobody on campus gives a hoot about his basketball team, it seems of late that he has acquired a following of friends and admirers who do not care all that much about winning and losing, but who appreciate someone who produces amid adversity. The Daily Princetonian
recently conducted a survey to find out who students felt best fulfilled the objectives of his position at Princeton. President William Bowen did not come out on top, nor did either of the university's two Nobel laureates or the physicists who run that expensive fusion project. Just plain Petey Carril did.