Word: materiales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The primary source of material for Yovicsin's varsity squads for the past several seasons has been Harvard's excellent JV teams, and it has been argued, and rightfully, that this is due to the ineffectiveness of the freshman program.
But the blame has too often been put on Lamar, especially by his former players, for "ruining" talent that otherwise would have become effective varsity material. The blame is unjust.
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...
Yovicsin's system was designed to bring Harvard football back to its feet after the most disastrous decade in its history, and a prerequisite was a drastically increased alumni recruiting program. The program has succeeded, but the burden of keeping the freshmen interested and of developing them into varsity material...
While this is not a surprising statement, it has serious implications. The most significant is that television programming is not a benignly vapid mess. In fact, the vapidity of television's material is responsible for its deleterious influence, which is primarily the enervating substitution of inoffensiveness for reason. Arlen writes...