Word: restic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WHEN JOE RESTIC arrived in Cambridge last fall, fresh from the wide-open Canadian pros with a fat playbook full of tricks under his arm, many Harvard fans, thoroughly bored by a decade of John Yovicsin's dive, sweep, incompletion offense, breathed a sigh of relief. But their relief soon became boredom again in the opening game, as Restic's man-in-motion, multiple set offense produced a paltry ten points against a Holy Cross team that had not won a game in almost three years (a performance that looked even more pathetic three weeks later when Syracuse stepped...
...Restic certainly did not deserve all the blame for the opening game fiasco, however. Implementing a new system is difficult, and making the transition from the Yovicsin system to the Restic system is a little like launching into Paradise Lost after priming on Classic Comics. Restic's problems were further aggravated by slow-witted quarterbacks, slow-footed defensive backs and receivers who clutched inside the twenty yard line...
Despite his handicaps and his problems, Restic had the last word for the skeptics in the final game of the season. His team unloaded 28 points on the Elis in the first half alone, as Restic became the first Harvard coach to enjoy both a winning season and a victory over Yale in his rookie year...
...week later, Restic finally found a quarterback in sophomore Jimmy Stoekel. While Dartmouth's eight man line bottled up the Crimson running game, Stoekel set a Harvard record for completions, connecting on 20 of 37 passes for 230 yards. On Harvard's first touchdown drive, Stoekel either passed or ran himself on every play. Stoekel received some help from the goat of the Holy Cross game, Denis Sullivan, who attoned for his dropped passes in the opener by setting up one touchdown and scoring the second on a spectacular catch. Sullivan dropped a bomb on the Dartmouth five yard line...
Harvard coach Joe Restic polled his players last month on both questions. He said last week that the vote was "better than four to one in favor of playing a tenth game." "They are not that much in favor of spring practice," he added. Carmen Cozza, Yale's coach, said that he didn't think Ivy League presidents would go along with spring practice because "other schools are looking to the Ivy League when they think of cutting athletic budgets...