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...Restic Factor. Simply put, Harvard will not lose this Game. Yale is not a good team. Harvard is a very good team that has suffered through four unlucky weeks. But with the coach retiring...
...first thing you notice about Harvard Coach Joe Restic is The Nose. Large, long, and crooked as a crag, it functions in conversation as a kind of vagrant puppy dog, pursuing your glance with friendly persistence. You squirm and wiggle in your chair, brush imaginary lint from your shirt and tie your shoes a couple of times to avoid its forthrightness, but it's no use. Slowly, surely, you settle into your chair, turn to The Nose and submit to his intent eyes...
...sitting in Coach Restic's plain, slightly-cluttered office in Dillon Field House on a cold, ugly November day. I've covered the football beat all season, attending all the home games and traveling as far as Williamsburg, Va. and Ithaca, NY to see the 3-5 Crimson. Now, I am going to get my due: for the first time all season, I'm going to conduct a long, in-depth personal interview with the greatest football coach in Harvard history and one of the greatest innovators in the history of the sport...
...that Restic has a history to tell is like saying that Elvis was a rock musician, Ernest Hemingway was a novelist and Marilyn Monroe was a woman. Framed by the three formative events of his generation--The Great Depression, World War II and post-war prosperity--the myriads of interesting details in Restic's life make it prime movie material...