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...assumed, therefore, that the position would go to Ralph Jelic, who at the time was the defensive coordinator for retiring head coach John Yovicsin, or possibly to a well-known professional or collegiate head coach...
Before I left for summer vacation in 1970. Ralph Jelic, the defensive coach who was the only coach who had spoken to me regularly during the year, asked me "what was going to happen in Chicago over the summer". I asked him what he meant. He said, "You know. Do you think there's going to be any trouble?" I asked him what he meant by trouble. He replied. "Are there going to be any riots or demonstrations?" I told him I didn't know. Then he said, "Well, if there in, I hope they let the police...
Sometimes Stephens would forget what he had told me at our previous meetings and would pause to fabricate a new excuse. Once I asked the defensive coach. Ralph Jelic, why he thought I wasn't playing on the varsity, Jelic replied. "Because you don't lift your feet high enough off the ground when you run." Which told me that either Jelic knew nothing about running backs or that there was a conspiracy afoot to discredit my abilities. Football authorities do not share Jelic's opinion about my style of running. Paul Zimmerman, in his book A Thinking...
...Restic finds himself staking out that same block of concrete, he will wonder about Frank Ryan, Babe Parilli, Willie Davis, and Ralph Jelic and why they couldn't be coaching Harvard and looking at the floor. He will wonder why Yovicsin couldn't be coaching another year while he (Restic) handled physical education. How much easier it is to worry about bowling shoes that don't fit and badminton rackets with broken strings...
...Though Jelic was not interested in staying. Tom Modrak and Bob Yales were reportedly inclined to remain at Harvard if possible. It appears that they will not get the chance unless Restic is unable to obtain the men he wants...