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...Saturday, November 23, 1957, first-year coach John Yovicsin walked along his team's bench and asked if by chance anyone had played quarterback in high school. Harvard was being shut out by Yale on regional television, and all three Crimson quarterbacks had left the game with injuries...
Last spring, Yovicsin announced that this fall will be his last as the coach of Harvard football. He put together ten consecutive winning teams, tied Percy Haughton for most wins as a Harvard coach, and had the first undefeated team here since 1920. But once again. Yovicsin finds himself searching for a quarterback...
Lack of a quarterback was one of the main explanations for 1969's 3-6 record, which has cast such a shadow over the end of Yovicsin's career. Frank Champi, the star of the 1968 Yale game, just didn't come through in 1969, and then he quit...
Almost inevitably, all the losing of last season has produced some changes. It appears that Yovicsin and his staff, who have always sort of worshipped the "system," will try instead to fashion the system to the material this year...
Defense has always been a strong point for Yovicsin's teams, both at Gettysburg and at Harvard, but he seems willing to alter the set-up some what in order to capitalize on the speed of the secondary, make up for a weakness at end, and to compensate for the fact that captain Gary Farneti is an outstanding linebacker on a team which is not blessed with much linebacking talent...