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...effort to obtain the offensive consistency that is necessary to avoid a losing season. Harvard football coach John Yoviesin once again has shuffled his backfield...
There had been conjecture that Yoviesin would install a new quarterback in his sputtering offensive attack, and the Crimson coach said Sunday that either Roda or sophomore Rex Blankenship would be the choice. From the performance of both players in the past few games. there seemed to be no clear-cut heir to Dave Smith's job. But Yoviesin admitted that Roda, primarily from his work in practice sessions, had a slight edge...
Harvard has yet to beat itself this season, unless one can call an impotent offense self-defeating. And the Crimson was never overmatched with regard to raw talent. Yovicsin attracts as good players to Cambridge as any other coach in the Ivy League, including McCandless at Princeton and Blackman at Dartmouth, and if Harvard has been humiliated this fall, the fault lies with Yovicsin's system...
Harvard's collapse is unsettling, but to any serious observer of Crimson football, the warning signs were there in the first game. They have not changed, and unless Yovicsin corrects the following aspects of his program, they will be here as long as Yovicsin is head coach...
...Playoffs are a really gutsy affair," Harvard's assistant coach Seamus Malin said. "It's a one shot thing and you have to take each match one at a time. All we're thinking of now though is clinching the Ivy title against Brown on Saturday," he added...