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Athletically, I had only unfortunate experiences at Harvard. One was meeting Coach John Yovicsin and his football staff, who successfully foiled any aspirations I had for gridiron achievement. Yovicsin and his staff could best be described as typically racist, reactionary conservatives--the kind of Americans who elected Richard Nixon in 1968. The following selected passages might provide more insight into "Yovy" and his relationship to me during the 1970 football season: Dartmouth Program Oct. 24, 1970 "It didn't seem inappropriate at his first press conference at a Boston hotel. Down at the end of a table was a long...
...Bolles, the athletic director, with a whimsical turn of mind, said to Yovicsin: 'That's one of your ends...
...Yovicsin recalls, 'I almost fell out of my chair...
...fairness, Restic shouldn't be judged on the basis of one season, especially when that season did see so many close games decided by interceptions and bad breaks. And maybe the vast change from John Yovicsin to Joe Restic will necessarily take more than nine games...
This was unlike the old days. No coach, not even Percy Haughton, had beaten Yale and had a winning season in his first year in Cambridge. Yovicsin had lost 54-0 in his first effort...