Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite this year's abysmal season, Mr. Yoviesin has somehow recived accolades far beyond his merit. He has been perpetrated on Harvard. John Yoviesin has lost 30 more games than the great Mr. Houghton, and if it weren't for the incredible talent the alumni drums up for him every year, and if he were left to his own coaching skills, he might conceivably lose the next 30 games...
...LAST time that the Harvard Band was arrested for disturbing the peace, New Haven residents were overly upset at the Band's impromptu parade through downtown New Haven at 3 a.m. on the night before the Yale game. That was in 1962, and since then, the Band has changed considerably...
Last year, the Band decided that the best way to treat the Yale Band and Yalies in general was to ignore them, so they made a point of not mentioning Yale in their halftime show at The Game. Plans for today's Harvard-Yale game were still in the formulative stages Wednesday night; to be blunt, the Band hadn't thought about their plans...
When most Harvard students and alumni think of the Band, they think first of its traditional Saturday afternoon antics at Harvard football games. There is no doubt that the Band is now as much a part of Harvard football tradition as Bobby Leo or Chub Peabody...
...despite its leanings toward more serious music in recent years. the Band's main source of notoriety remains its performance at Harvard football games. During dismal football seasons, such as the present one, the Band is always there on Saturday to entertain those Harvard supporters too disgusted with the football team to pay any attention to the game...