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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...
...despite the doubts of the media, the fans and even his own coach, Holt would more than hold his own as a starter. After struggling in a disappointing 24-21 loss to Rutgers in the season’s second game, he bounced back to lead the Crimson to a 5-1 Ivy record, affording his team a shot at a share of the Ivy title against unbeaten Yale...