 After a two-year stint in the Air Force, Navarro headed to Teachers College at Columbia University, where the Lion’s head football coach, Lou Little, offered him the job of assistant offensive line coach under John Bateman in 1955.Littles’ offer ended Navarro’s pursuit of teaching and got him on the path to a career in coaching.Navarro joined the Williams College coaching staff in 1957 as an assistant to head coach, Len Watter’s, where Navarro introduced the “Monster Defense” and rang up a slew of shutouts in the early 1960’s.