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Football here at Harvard is not big time, no matter how you look at it. Sure Joe Restic brought in his pro-set multiple offense that was heralded as the light in the Neanderthal wilderness after over a decade of John Yovicsin's conservative approach...
WHEN JOE RESTIC arrived in Cambridge last fall, fresh from the wide-open Canadian pros with a fat playbook full of tricks under his arm, many Harvard fans, thoroughly bored by a decade of John Yovicsin's dive, sweep, incompletion offense, breathed a sigh of relief. But their relief soon became boredom again in the opening game, as Restic's man-in-motion, multiple set offense produced a paltry ten points against a Holy Cross team that had not won a game in almost three years (a performance that looked even more pathetic three weeks later when Syracuse stepped...
Restic certainly did not deserve all the blame for the opening game fiasco, however. Implementing a new system is difficult, and making the transition from the Yovicsin system to the Restic system is a little like launching into Paradise Lost after priming on Classic Comics. Restic's problems were further aggravated by slow-witted quarterbacks, slow-footed defensive backs and receivers who clutched inside the twenty yard line...
FOSTER LOST his touch in the second game, throwing three interceptions and no completions in the first half, so he reverted to an offense that began to look ominously like Yovicsin's. The Crimson muddled to a boring 17-7 victory, however, defeating a Northeastern powerhouse that had dropped its opener to Bridgeport...
...team is? He's Sidney Williams, that black guy sitting over there. And you know what? They wouldn't even let him play, but boy is he tough." When I heard Krohn, a Harvard halfback say this. I knew then that though I might not have impressed Yovicsin and his racist coaches, in the eyes of some of the players I had proven myself. And to me that is what the game is all about