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Since they were only freshmen, Yovicsin had to struggle through another fall with what he had. Then came the first glimpse of light at the end of the proverbial tunnel. The score was 8-8 in the final quarter of the Dartmouth game when the In-dians, who went on to win the title, passed from their end zone instead of punting...
Hank Keohane intercepted, and moments later Chet Boulris scored what was proved to be the winning touchdown. It was Yovicsin's first big victory, and one of three Harvard games he remembers most fondly...
Ravenel was probably the one who led Yovicsin to give up his hopes of strong passing teams which he had grown accustomed to at Gettysburg and had expected to develop at Harvard. He weighed 160 pounds and was a superb runner, while completing less than 40 per cent of his passes. The offense sort of developed around his style of play, and then it was mostly a question of inertia. And the defense had become superb; it was a Yovicsin trademark which has remained strong ever since...
...next six years, Yovicsin's teams stayed in the first division, sharng the championship again in 1966, along with Dartmouth and Princeton...
Everything peaked in 1968. Yovicsin said at the start of the season, "We're not conceding anything." But there were obvious problems, and it looked like a little "rebuilding" was in order. Zimmerman was gone, for one thing...