Word: yovicsin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last ten years or so, Harvard football fans have been able to rely on certain recurring themes. Every year, Harvard would recruit enough talent to play in the Big Ten, and the freshmen coaches and the various local diversions would waste it. Coach John Yovicsin consistently stayed with his dive, sweep, incompletion offense, and if the defense was good, the Crimson would plod to a three-way tie for second...
...defense can learn how to tackle over the next few weeks, Harvard will be a contender. Yale coach Carm Cozza's remark to Restic that he would have to choose between the best two quarterbacks in the Ivy League may be more attributable to the wine at the Yovicsin dinner than to reality, but both Foster and Crone can be excellent quarterbacks. At any rate, losing to Holy Cross should be enough reason for Harvard to win the rest of its games...
...that as it may, Restic realizes the necessity of tempering daring with equal doses of moderation and caution. His cautiousness is founded primarily in planning: like Yovicsin, and perhaps even more so because of his professional background, Restic charts and evaluates every aspect of his personnel. This way, each gamble he takes is calculated well in advance...
Another potential, but unlikely, problem Restic may have to contend with is that of racial dissension. Tension between the team's black players and the coaching staff grew during Yovicsin's last years, and it reached a peak after the Dartmouth game last Fall...
...that the squad's five blacks boycotted practice for two days and confronted Yovicsin with charges of racism and discrimination against several of his assistant coaches...