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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...
...weeks ago, 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...
...Yovicsin, who came to Harvard after coaching for five years at Gettysburg, rebuilt a floundering football program here. After sub-500 records in both 1957 and 1958, Yovicsin put together winning teams for the next ten years before the 1969 disappointments...
...tied with former coach Percy Haughton for the most wins at Harvard-71. Yovicsin was selected three times as the coach of the year in New England...
...Yovicsin has both a bachelor's and a master's degree in physical education and was working for his Ph.D. at the University of Maryland when the move to Harvard curtailed his studies...