Word: margarita
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Margarita is silent on this, too. He just keeps drilling and teaching and hoping that he will have a team for his own schedule this year and something of value for Lloyd Jordan next year...
...Yardlings are little more than 85 names on a sheet. They have been practicing for less than a week and will probably not be divided into A and B squads for still another week. No one is less talkative about them than coach Margarita. "I don't know where anyone will be in a week," he said. "They haven't finished basic training...
...have boys here from everywhere," explains Margarita, "and they have played all kinds of football. Our biggest job is teaching them the funamentals of the game and of Harvard's system...
...Margarita will not comment on individuals: "We try to watch for individual speed and reactions," he protests, "but it is too early." For the group as a whole, the coach does admit that '59 is larger in the line than '58, but adds that the backfield may be smaller...
...larger. More than one amateur coach has drifted over from varsity practice to note that "these are very big people to be called Yardlings." And if it is not now very graceful, and if these very big freshmen are at present fighting themselves hardest, it is likely that Margarita, who demonstrates and practices without benefit of pads, will be able to cure that...