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Thus when the Corporation announced the appointment of John M. Yovicsin, football coach at Gettysburg College, as the new head coach of football at Harvard, that was considerable surprise and scepticism expressed by various individuals. Yovicsin was a low-pressure type person. He had long since abandoned the glory of professional football for a relatively quiet existence as coach at tiny Gettysburg College. In coming to Harvard, many felt, Yovicsin would find the "big-time" too much to handle. Nothing could have been further from the truth. His low-pressure approach to football and his genuine love of the game...
...however, "My future was not in pro football, and I wanted very much to stay in the coaching profession. Playing for the Eagles would have kept me away from some of my team's games, so I decided to stop playing." A few years later he returned to Gettysburg, his alma mater, as an assistant coach of football...
Yovicsin enjoyed the quiet life of a coach in a small college and settled down in Gettysburg with hopes to stay there a long time. His family liked the area very much and soon moved into a house which Yovicsin planned himself. His salary was excellent, and he was a member of the faculty with tenure. Yet on March 12 of this year he accepted the position of head coach of football at Harvard...
...GETTYSBURG, Pa., Dec. 1--President Eisenhower will return to the White House tomorrow and hopes to sit in for a time on an afternoon Cabinet meeting...
...GETTYSBURG, Pa., Nov. 29--The comeback trail from a minor stroke brought President Eisenhower back once more today to the serenity of a brick and stone home amid the rolling acres of this country estate...