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...when Eric Crone was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals on the 17th round of last year's NFL draft, Crimson gridiron fans had reason to be surprised. And, although the colorful Crone was finally cut when the Cardinals trimmed down to their final regular season limit last week, the fact that Crone was the last player to be dropped by the Cardinals speaks highly for the 6 ft. 3 in. quarterback...
...superb atheletes in the past, many of whom have had excellent potential in professional sports. Eric Crone will not be remembered as Harvard's greatest football player--for all his potential, his Crimson career was spotty--but he has certainly demonstrated that he, and a lot of other Harvard gridiron heroes who have chalked up even more impressive statistics, can play with the "big boys." When they want...
Restic, fresh from a sojourn in the wide-open Canadian Football League and blessed (as one writer reported at the time) with "the most brilliant football mind in North America," was billed as the gridiron messiah to lead Harvard out of the intercollegiate wilderness...
Certainly the Crimson coach has introduced theories which Harvard football fans have never seen. The gridiron Puritanism that characterized Yovicsin's football philosophy has been transformed into a wild athletic gadabout. Shifts, multiple sets, motion, passes, reverses, along with a host of other different--and sometimes unorthodox--techniques, have become part of the Harvard football vocabulary...
...while this transformation has taken place and subconsciously pricked the fancy of the entire Boston football audience, promises of a gridiron renaissance under Restic's tutelage have remained largely unfulfilled in his first two years. While Resticball at Harvard has opened the eyes of the entire New England and Ivy League football audience with its dashing ingenuity, one significant element has been missing--Restic teams have not won as most people believed they should...