Word: lalich
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most immediately pressing problem is at the quarterback position. Senior George Lalich, who started for the first team, looked alternately good and bad. Although his passing was generally on target, the sometime-baseball pitcher committed a number of errors of inexperience--throwing away laterals, fumbling snaps from center...
Moreover, Lalich had trouble moving the team consistently against the second defensive unit, which provided the opposition all afternoon. In this controlled scrimmage (Coach Yovicsin had the ball placed at various spots on the field with different down situations to provide essential game practice) Lalich's unit produced only one touchdown...
...score came on the first team's second series of plays after Lalich had run the teams through fifteen minutes of playing time without crossing the goal line. Moving almost exclusively through the air, relying on sure hands, good speed, and brute force of a potentially great split and sophomore Pete Varney, Lalich brought the team from deep in his own territory to the defense's 40. Then he pitched to sparingly used Captain Vic Gatto for what looked like a Gatto special around the left...
Aside from the helpful position changes, there have been few other pluses for Yovicsin. Quarterback is still a serious question mark, but top man George Lalich has at least stayed healthy, and Dave Smith has earned the number two spot among the four original candidates. The defensive front five--ends Pete Hall and Steve Ranere, tackles Steve Zebal and Lonny Kaplan,and middle guard Alex Maclean--and the linebacking with lettermen John Emery and Gerry Marino remain strong and may well be the key to any Harvard victories...
Peters, who struck out 12 batters boosting his 11.5 strikeout average, was taken out for a rest after the seventh inning, and reliefer George Lalich finished the game...