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Scouting the game was Harvard coach John M. Yovicsin, who had his eye on the running of Crimed Michael S. Lottman '61-4. Lottman plunged over Yale's solid forward wall from the three-yard line, after the CRIMSON's fumble recovery. At the same moment, in another game, Coastguard Cutler of the Whiffenpoofs scored to win a contest with the Krokodiloes...
...John Yovicsin said at the post-game conference Sat-that since the half-time at the Columbia contest he had been coaching a vigorous, well-coordinated team. Whatever may have been the turning point of this fall's season, it is certain that what seemed likely to become a sixth-place squad has fought magnificently to emerge at the very top of the Ivy League...
According to Oldham's letter, "Ron" Panther was declared eligible to play Ivy League football last Thursday. The letter, addressed to Yovicsin, said, "Your know that Panther shattered every major national freshman record when he played at Ohio State. You are, of course, aware that after he dropped out of school to enter the Armed Force he broke every major services record. And you are cognizant of the fact that he was offered the starting quarterback's job on the New York Giants after his highly impressive series of workouts with that club...
Even after Panther scored four touchdowns and passed for three in leading the JV's to a 48-10 scrimmage victory over the varsity, the letter charged, Yovicsin refused to use him against Yale "You say that it isn't fair to Ted Halaby, Mike Bassett, and Bill Humenuk, who have worked all year just for The Game, to start someone who has been out for the team for only a week--BUT IS THIS MORE IMPORTANT THAN A HARVARD VICTORY?" the letter asks...
Yesterday Yovicsin showed no sign of changing his mind, evidently placing sentimentality ahead of practicality. Apparently he chose to ignore the implications of Brown's "Stop Ron Panther" sign, which students hastily drew and displayed at Saturday's game after word got around that Panther might be eligible. And he was not swayed by an upsurge of Harvard student sentiment...