Word: holovak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surprising thing was that I only got one phone call from the Boston Patriots. [Coach Mike] Holovak talked to me in February and said they were interested in me, but their first concern was defense--especially defensive tackles and cornerbacks. He said I was their fifth choice, and if I was still available when the seventh round came--they'd traded away two picks--they'd take me. And that's exactly the way it worked out. It was sort of like my coming to Harvard. I was recruited by dozens of schools across the country, but I ended...
...Character-building is all right in high school, but when you get to the pros, winning is the only thing," said Mike Holovak, coach of the Boston Patriots, who lost the season's decisive game last fall...
...that final game of the season, which gave the Jets the Eastern division title, Holovak told a crowd at Lowell House last night that he would "say a little, damn little...
...Holovak claimed that the difference between Big Ten schools and colleges like Harvard is the number of big, talented linemen. A former fullback, he surmised that the linemen just aren't smart enough to get into the Ivies...
...Holovak's audience enjoyed an unexpected treat, the first Boston showing of "Champions Without a Crown," the Pats' 1966 highlights. If Holovak does not produce the Crown in 1967 as he predicted last night, like his college roommate who got engaged, he may be heard singing, "I'll never smile again...