Word: lamar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three years ago, Lamar used nearly twenty backs, playing them equally. Both methods have proved unsatisfactory, but they are the only methods possible under the present circumstances...
...Lamar will have to select a starting squad by this afternoon for the Crimson's opener with Columbia tomorrow, and it is likely that he'll change his mind from week to week. He always has. It is likely that by November, many superb players will have seen scant action. There will be mass discontent, a considerable degree of attrition when the squad reports to Yovicsin next year, and a lingering bitterness in several athletes towards Harvard's entire football program...
...until Harvard becomes more selective in its recruiting, until it prunes the list of high school prospects to a figure that Lamar and his staff can humanly handle, the sad spectacle is bound to continue...
...Lamar, it seems, is faced with two possible alternatives. He can either choose the cream of the material he has and play them exclusively, or he can play everybody. Two years ago, he selected a backfield of Bill Kelly, Pete Varney, Richie Szaro, and Tom Miller and stayed with it for the entire season. A group of superb performers, Scotty Guild, Pat Coleman, and Skip Vaccarello, were all but overlooked. Only Guild is still playing football and he still hasn't gotten the chance he deserves...
...Lamar has been the freshman coach since 1945. He has coached under Harlow, Valpey, Jordan and Yovicsin, but only since Yovicsin's arrival in 1957 has he been faced with the multitudes of "All-Conference" candidates that besiege him season after season...