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After the second half of the Columbia game, "I knew that we could play good, steady football," Yovicsin relates...
...this is the attitude which led to Yovicsin's remarkable coaching accomplishment this year. "Getting the boys up for every game is more difficult at Harvard than at most places," he notes. "The academic pressures--hour exams, labs, and papers--make it hard for a boy to concentrate on football with the same amount of intensity each week. Every year my staff and I have fought to overcome this problem...
...Yovicsin so successful this year, leading his team through five straight victories in the difficult last-half of the season? Because "we had an outstanding group of seniors that convinced the team that we were going to have a winning ball club no matter what...
...they convince the coaches during the depressions in the early part of the season that the team was going to be a winning squad?" Yovicsin was asked. "I'm sure that they did," he admitted. "Their continual optimism and reassurances that 'It'll come, coach,' helped me very much...
...wonder that Yovicsin can't stop praising his 17 seniors? And why he spent most of his pre-game instructions on strategy, leaving much of the emotional and psychological preparations up to these seniors? Before every game this year, Yovicsin ended his chalk talks with three simple but vital words: "Seniors, take over." He would leave the locker room, and the seniors would communicate with the team as only they knew...