Word: yovicsin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Though Yovicsin's successor will be unknown to many here, he has apparently earned a name in football circles. "He hasn't gotten much press on the Eastern Seaboard," one source admitted...
...candidates mentioned most often in the Boston newspapers lately were Ralph Jelic, defensive coordinator for Yovicsin, and Frank Ryan, the former star quarterback for the Cleve land Browns and now backup man for Washington's Sonny Jurgenson...
Jelic was extremely popular with the players he has coached at Harvard, but the committee was apparently more interested in finding a completely new person, someone not in the "Yovicsin mold," as one member put it. In addition, if Jelic had been selected, he would have faced some difficult personal situations in deciding which members of the present staff to keep...
...member of the group which selected the coach expressed satisfaction that the Boston papers had been unable to guess who Yovicsin's successor was "Joe Concannon [of the Boston Globe] was really beating the bushes," he said. The committee member said that some of the names mentioned by papers appeared after reporters found their names in Boston hotel logbooks...
...When Yovicsin was selected as Lloyd Jordan's replacement in 1957, speculators were also surprised. He announced last Spring that he would retire after the 1970 season because of a weak heart. Yoviesin is now director of physical training and recreation...