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...Yovicsin enjoyed the quiet life of a coach in a small college and settled down in Gettysburg with hopes to stay there a long time. His family liked the area very much and soon moved into a house which Yovicsin planned himself. His salary was excellent, and he was a member of the faculty with tenure. Yet on March 12 of this year he accepted the position of head coach of football at Harvard...
Just six months earlier, he had discussed with his wife whether or not he should apply for one of the several excellent coaching jobs which were then available. They decided to stay in Gettysburg. Yovicsin did not like the insecure prospect of coach at a school where a coach had to win consistently or lose his job. He preferred to stay where...
...Yovicsin had long thought, however, that if he were to look for a new coaching job he would want "to move to a school which was part of such a league as the Ivy League. Such a move would be the next step in coaching, and I thought I might like to give it a try," he explains. So when a Harvard representative contacted him about the possibility of moving to Cambridge, he decided to come and meet some University officials and hear just what might be expected of a Harvard football coach. He interpreted the administrative jargon about "good...
...family of five found New England to their liking; Yovicsin wanted to meet the challenge of fielding a good team under the Ivy League rules. With this settled, the Yovicsin family took up residence in Framingham, and Yovicsin himself undertook the task of transforming Harvard football. The record of that transformation has been evident all fall. After an initial shock when for various personal reasons some key players left the squad, his team has enjoyed playing for him. He asks only that each player work his hardest, and he in turn works hard for them. Players on the junior varsity...
Early season predictions gave Harvard scant chance to win more than one game, but under Yovicsin's coaching, the Crimson won three of its first six games until injuries cut it down in its last two contests of the year. Yovicsin was "pleased, although naturally not completely pleased. We hoped to have a winning season," he says, "but we are very happy with the progress the boys made...