Word: restic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usually, Dave Matthews has to hustle Boston sportswriters into covering Harvard athletics. (Who cares, after all, about some fencing match or a Radcliffe field hockey game?) That is when obscure nuggets of information like the one he gave Restic are useful: sports reporters are a lazy lot, Matthews knows, and if he can dig up some interesting bit of trivia for them about a Harvard team, they will use it. And that is what Dave Matthews is paid to do: help sportswriters and hype Harvard. He is very good...
...from the Boston press, the one week when reporters do not want little nuggets from Matthews as much as two other things: seats in the press box (because it is always jammed for the Yale game) and quotes for their Yale week preview stories from the coach, taciturn Joe Restic...
...Restic was holing up with game films and assistant coaches this week, a difficult man for sportswriters to corner. So Matthews would have lunch with Restic at the Varsity Club today and get all the dope, then funnel it to reporters...
They walked quickly up Holyoke Street, then turned right on Mass Ave. Restic, tall and lean, took long strides; Matthews, small and paunchy, scurried to keep...
People on the street recognized Restic--"Hi, coach," a student said as he passed, and another man shook hands with him--but nobody seemed to know Dave Matthews, the scrappy guy in the blue parka, the Jeff in this Mutt and Jeff...