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Funeral services for Tex Oliver, 88, former University of Arizona and Oregon football coach, will be held today at 10 a.m. at Rose Hills Cemetery in Whittier. Oliver died of cancer Sunday at


his Costa Mesa home. Oliver was also one of Santa Ana High School’s early coaches, serving there from 1926 until he took the Arizona job in 1933. He had a 32-11-4 record at Arizona for five


seasons before becoming Oregon’s coach from 1938 through 1941. MORE TO READ