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...legendary coach Joe Restic and the Harvard football team began preparations for the 1974 season, uncertainty abounded. After the departure of All-Ivy quarterback Jim Stoeckel ’74, the team was forced to rely on the wiry frame of untested senior Milt Holt, an eccentric southpaw signal-caller with almost no varsity experience...
...Milt could be the most exciting quarterback we’ve had here,” Restic once told the Harvard Football News of Holt’s unpredictable nature. “And I mean that both ways—he can be very good or very...
...ball lying on the Yale one-half yard line, Restic called timeout. But rather than send out the field goal unit to get the win and the share of the Ivy title, he showed the ultimate confidence in his rookie quarterback, keeping the ball in his hands. Pineapple Milt did his coach proud, running around left end and diving into the end zone for a touchdown that put Harvard on top for good—and ruined a stunned Yale’s unbeaten season...
...Milt passed away in 1989. We were married for 39 years. He was ill for two years with bladder cancer and then bowel cancer. He was originally given three months to live, and he just would not accept this. He wanted to live. At the very end, I called his pain specialist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering. She said, "I can't help him unless he comes into the hospital." Even after all these years I still cry when I think about it--he wanted life so much that he was willing to go back into the hospital. There just wasn...
...piece of a person. I was not going to eat over the sink for the rest of my life. This was a surprise for me. I had always thought of myself as a piece of something else or half of something. I had really thought that when I lost Milt I would fall apart. But I didn't. I realized that I could be alone. I now took care of me. I'd eat what I wanted to eat. I'd buy veal chops, which Milt wasn't fond of. I'd sleep when I wanted to sleep...