Word: yovicsin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson's 7-2 record and second place Ivy League finish in Yovicsin's final season marked the greatest one-season turnabout in Harvard football history...
Last year, in what was perhaps Yovicsin's most disappointing season. the Crimson was favored to win the Ivy League championship for the second consecutive year, but instead faltered to a 3-6 fifth-place finish...
...Yovicsin coached Harvard to three Ivy Championships during his career, and each time he did so he was named Coach of the Year. His first title came in 1961 when, after four years of rebuilding. he managed a 6-3 record and a tie for first with Columbia. It was the second time he won the mythical Big Three championship...
...Yovicsin's team rebounded from a 5-2-2 record for a 9-1 mark and another tie for the Ivy title, this time with Princeton. And finally, his only undefeated season in 1968- which was climaxed by the 29-29 tie with Yale- through another title and Coach of the Year honors...
...rare that a football coach inherits a team as solid as next year's Crimson squad. Due partly to the fact that John Yovicsin is leaving because of his health and not because of his lack of success, and partly to the fact that Harvard had a great recruiting year in 1969, the incoming coach takes over a young and unusually deep team...