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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...
...Harvard coach said last week that "it was really the perfect type of outside activity for me," but Monday he met with Veeck and told him that he no longer wanted the post...
When Yovicsin announced Tuesday that he had accepted a job as a special assistant to Bill Veeck. president of the track, it appeared that he had received the University's approval. "Harvard has given me permission to do things on the side." he said at the time...
Varsity football coach John Yovicsing was named yesterday as a special assistant to Bill Veeck, president of Suffolk Downs...
...Bill Veeck signed a midget to play major league baseball. He gave a yacht to one of the outstanding pitchers on his team. This spring various lucky bettors received prizes at Suffolk Downs--from a case of champagne to a steer. It is unfortunate that a man of such rare promotional genius should be fettered by local politics. In the end Veeck's way will bring more money to the state coffers than anyone else's way, and that is what the state is after anyway...