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Head football coach John Yovicsin has decided to turn down the offer to work as a special assistant to Bill Veeck at Suffolk Downs race track in East Boston only a week after accepting the position...
...have completely given up any plans for working at Suffolk Downs." Yovicsin said in a prepared statement released yesterday morning just before he left town for a speaking tour...
Yovicsin's job is to lure various organizations to Suffolk Downs and to persuade them to entertain friends and visitors there. Unless one frowns on business, and I doubt that Harvard officials do, this position is certainly above reproach. But our football coach will probably come in contact with some gamblers, and perhaps Harvard fears that in a moment of weakness he will fall prey to their evil instincts...
...send Yovicsin on his way, thereby ridding Harvard of a coach who has not measured up to its expectations on the field. Such a suggestion will obviously receive no documentation from Harvard officials, but is a reasonable conjecture nevertheless. There are indications that Yovicsin has agreed to quit Suffolk Downs before starting work there, so Harvard will not have the chance to kiss him goodbye because of a refusal to resign from the new post...
Yovicsin's new position is involved with promotion. His job would be to convince businessmen and other organizations that Suffolk Downs is a good place to entertain visitors and friends. He said Tuesday that it was a "perfect activity" for him, but there were indications yesterday that if he were given an ultimatum, by Harvard to choose one or the other, he would remain a coach...