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After the game, coach John Yovicsin called it "without question the team's best effort of the season." Few Harvard followrs would dispute him. Certainly none would who had watched a Crimson eleven put together a first quarter 72-yard touchdown march of 16 plays without a fumble or miscue...
Bilodeau tried three running plays, and on fourth down John Yovicsin sent in Dullea to try a 45-yard field goal. The wind was with him, and the kick was almost good; the ball bounced off the right upright just where the crossbar meets the upright...
What can be done about this situation? First, Yovicsin and his colleagues can keep in the varsity and junior varsity programs everyone who belongs there. Since the purpose of a varsity team is to win games, not everyone interested can get to play, and there will inevitably be some people not good enough to make the team. But the varsity coaches need not go out of their way to discourage interested and capable athletes. An incident reported in the Nov. 10 CRIMSON points this out. How many Askold Kohimanns, driven to quit the varsity programs, are now on House teams...
Kohlmann said that he had complained to Yovicsin during their discussion that he had "not been given a chance to play this year." He had seen action only in the Penn game, when he had played two minutes on offense...
Kohlmann added that when he challenged the evaluation and suggested to Yovicsin that the two review the films of the New Hampshire scrimmage, Yovicsin said, "This is getting out of hand. Now you had better turn in your equipment...