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...leave the world of football after dinner, but on Mondays there is a team meeting to go over the scouting reports on the week's opponent. The coaches handed out a 20-page brochure on Yale: the roster, statistics, play diagrams, defense diagrams, and on and on. Bob Gongola, the offensive backfield coach, had scouted them. Gongola, tall, blond, and muscular, with a flat-top haircut, stands out by inches when the coaches pose for pictures. He is, in his own immortal phrase, "a big stud...
...heavy team, Gongola told us. The line averaged 217 pounds, and they had good depth. He warned us about Bill Henderson, a speedy halfback with a 6.7-yard average, and about Mercein (but Mercein, Gongola had noticed, had a weakness--on a play that was to send him into the line, he lined up on his toes. If he was to run around end, he stayed back on his heels. It was something any lineman could see and exploit...
...Robert Gongola, a former Illinois great, has been added to the Harvard football coaching staff...
...Gongola, who is 29, will serve as backfield coach, giving special attention to developing quarterbacks. With five boys fighting for the quarterback slot, Gongola's experience in tutoring signal callers should prove extremely valuable. One of the greatest punters in Illinois story, the new Crimson coach played the Illini squad that defeated Stanford 40-7 in the 1952 Rose Bowl game. He has been coaching since 1958 at University, where he developed Canty, who ranked fifth nationally forward passing last season...
...Gongola's appointment gives Head Coach John Yovicsin a staff of five varsity assistants, and will allow Yovicsin more time to supervise the development of the team in all areas...
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