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...Yovicsin, the most enjoyable part of football is "getting on the field with sweats and personally teaching a player some skill." A former all-Middle Atlantic end and a Philadelphia Eagle, Yovicsin coached the backfield and ends himself during his first years at Harvard, just as at Gettysburg College and several high schools previously. As his staff has expanded and he has had to assume more public relations duties, he has lost the firsthand contact with players. He has gradually become accustomed to the outside responsibilities of a coach, but he reminisces about that "on-the-field coaching which nothing...
Yovicsin looks back in nostalgia on his position as head coach at Gettysburg. "Boy, I guess I'll never live like that again," he says smiling, shaking his head. "Our home was adjacent to the fourth hole of a golf course, and right across the fairway was a lake stocked with bass...
When Yovicsin left his cozy position at Gettysburg for Harvard in 1957, the New York Times reported that he was "headed for the coach's graveyard." It was a fairly accurate evaluation of the possibilities open to a Harvard coach. In the 10 years before Yovicsin's arrival, neither of two coaches could win half his games, and for good reasons...
...when he made the difficult decision to leave Gettysburg, Yovicsin told its sports information director straight-forwardly that he was going to be "the best coach Harvard ever had." Now in his 10th year, he has almost reached that goal. Only the legendary Percy D. Haughton '99 has won more games, and only Richard D. Harlow, with 11 seasons, has served longer. His six victories over Yale in nine games top all Harvard coaches, including Haughton. But a Yovicsin team still has not become sole holder of a League title. "That often depends on how much a college wants...
...people on the streets are Negro, poor. The streets are often crowded with cars as the road system has not kept pace with the increase in population. This is not expensive, nubile Westchester. That is off in Larchmont and Scarsdale. Republican bailiwicks as secure as Eisenhower's Gettysburg farm. Even if O'Connor were vastly imaginative, which to read his programs he is not, he would still not conceive of winning Westchester, so last week, obviously on good advice, he concentrated on the cities...