Word: restics
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...every Harvard football opponent were like Brown, Columbia or Penn, Crimson Coach Joe Restic would have a lot more than 100 career victories...
Saturday's 27-14 win over Brown pushed Restic into the century club and marked his 13th career victory over the Bruins. Restic's mark against the Bruins, Lions and Quakers, in 19 years at the helm of the Crimson, is 44-12, an average of 2.3 wins per year. Take his games against those three Ivy League rivals away and Restic's record is a less-than-astounding...
Speaking about the difficulty of playing a Restic-coached team, Brown Coach John Rosenberg noted "the variety of formations that they present and the capacity to run the same plays from several different formations...
...prepare for some basic things, but in your practice and your preparation, you really have to take a guess at what will be the formation of the day," said Rosenberg, who has lost five of six games to Restic's Harvard squads. "Usually, the different formations that they come out with in a given game takes you out of your defensive plan...
Throw in the fact that Brown has played much better than a 1-6 team over the last five weeks, and Harvard Coach Joe Restic's second try at his 100th career victory looks even tougher. The Bruins jumped out to a 13-0 second-quarter lead against Rhode Island before succumbing, 18-13, and then almost upset Ivy powers Princeton (trailing, 20-15, in the third quarter, Brown eventually lost, 38-15) and Penn (32-30) on consecutive weeks...