Word: yovicsin
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...last ten years or so, Harvard football fans have been able to rely on certain recurring themes. Every year, Harvard would recruit enough talent to play in the Big Ten, and the freshmen coaches and the various local diversions would waste it. Coach John Yovicsin consistently stayed with his dive, sweep, incompletion offense, and if the defense was good, the Crimson would plod to a three-way tie for second...
...Restic came down from the wide-open Canadian pros, and the Boston sportswriters agreed that Harvard football would suddenly become worth watching. However, the new offense managed only three touchdown drives in two games, and the plays that ground out yardage against Northeastern began to look suspiciously like Yovicsin's. Furthermore, another dependable feature of Harvard football during recent years re-emerged. The players started complaining about the coaching...
...conflict came out in the open last week. Senior John Ambrositas, who had been buried in Yovicsin's depth chart for two years, played with the starters the week before the Northeastern game only to discover on Friday that he was once again a third stringer for the game. Ambrosidas quit the team...
...defense can learn how to tackle over the next few weeks, Harvard will be a contender. Yale coach Carm Cozza's remark to Restic that he would have to choose between the best two quarterbacks in the Ivy League may be more attributable to the wine at the Yovicsin dinner than to reality, but both Foster and Crone can be excellent quarterbacks. At any rate, losing to Holy Cross should be enough reason for Harvard to win the rest of its games...
...that the squad's five blacks boycotted practice for two days and confronted Yovicsin with charges of racism and discrimination against several of his assistant coaches...