Word: holte
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...legendary coach Joe Restic and the Harvard football team began preparations for the 1974 season, uncertainty abounded. After the departure of All-Ivy quarterback Jim Stoeckel ’74, the team was forced to rely on the wiry frame of untested senior Milt Holt, an eccentric southpaw signal-caller with almost no varsity experience...
Affectionately dubbed “Pineapple Milt” in honor of his home state of Hawaii, Holt had best been known around campus as a baseball player, the ace of the Crimson staff and a reigning First Team All-New England selection. Suddenly, he faced the tough task of leading a rebuilding squad still seething from its disastrous 35-0 drubbing in New Haven in the previous season’s finale...
...Holt, the test would prove to be the first gentle breeze of a violent whirlwind that would define his life both at Harvard and beyond...
...Holt was known to be a wild card, a whimsical character who was reported to have once left the bullpen during a Crimson baseball game in order to fetch his transistor radio. Always a Hawaiian first, he would frequently wear Bermuda shorts and sandals around the Square regardless of weather conditions, and he generally tended to be almost too relaxed for comfort...
...photograph below of a fierce-looking group of men cradling antique machine guns comes from an old album in my home. It dates from about 1930, and its caption reads, "Sheik Mahmoud of Kurdistan. Surrendered to Political Officer Victor Holt VC accompanied by FO M.O." "Sheik Mahmoud" was Mahmoud Barzanji, chieftain of a famous Kurdish clan, who led a series of revolts against British rule in Iraq after World War I. "FO M.O." was Royal Air Force Flight Officer Max Oxford, my late father...