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Normally one could almost be sure that Stoeckel had earned the starting job, but this year Coach Joe Restic has instituted a policy of not naming the starting quarterback until the day of the game. Stoeckel enjoys the system: "It causes more fierce competition during the week, less complacency, and makes for a better team...
...Stoeckel seems to thrive on adversity. After leading his county in passing in his junior year in high school, he suffered a broken collarbone a week before the start of his senior season, and missed the whole year. After a good, though unspectacular freshman year, he came to school this year already behind Crone and Foster. "I knew I would have to start at the bottom, being only a sophomore behind two juniors. I wanted to play, but it didn't seem that I was going to start," he said...
...minutes before the Dartmouth game, Coach Joe Restic decided to start Stoeckel after watching Rod Foster throw in the pre-game warm up. "Coach Restic wanted to see how Rod's shoulder was, and he only told me I was playing when the team came back onto the field right before the game...
When asked what he thought about the level of competition in the Ivy League, which critics use in dismissing the performance of Ed Marinaro, Stoeckel said that he thought it is "good as there is". He sees the teams as being very balanced, and while the overall depth in the league may not be as great as in some of the other football conferences, the teams "produce a lot of guys who could play anywhere...
...There isn't the same kind of do or die thing in the Ivy League that one finds in other conferences around the country." Stoeckel noted, and the players play because they "love the game". "The pressure is the same, though, big school or small," he noted. "One couldn't find a more pressure-wrought game than the Harvard-Dartmouth game," he concluded...