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After it was all over Saturday, Harvard coach John Yovicsin was asked, "Have you ever lost a game like that before...
Only a game like Saturday's--designed for the tales of a Robert Ripley or a Bill Stern--could lead to such confounding statements as: "I was fairly well pleased with our overall performance," by Yovicsin, the losing coach, and "I was not satisfied with our club," by the winning coach Bill Leckonby. The happy, yet "disappointed" Leckonby added in philosophical reflection, "This game of football, I don't know. The more you play it, the less you understand about it. I wonder...
Curiously, none of the 78 games in Yovicsin's 50-28 career has ended in a tie. (At Harvard he has amassed an 18-17 record; at Gettysburg, 32 and 11.) In his first four years at Harvard, the Crimson has won two openers, both in the last two seasons--36.22 over UMass and 13-6 over Holy Cross...
Crimson fans hope that today's game does not begin like the Holy Cross game last year; and that Yovicsin's luck with Lehigh turns for the better. (On the opening kickoff of the season last year, Holy Cross scored a touchdown...
Harvard and Lehigh? "I only wish I knew how it will finish," Yovicsin said yesterday. "I'd sleep better...