Word: yovicsin
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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Margarita is known to have had considerable support for the position of head coach, left vacant by the firing of Lloyd Jordan, but filled yesterday with the appointment of John Yovicsin. However, it is believed that Margarita expressed his disinterest in the position...
Members of the Faculty Committee on Athletics were highly impressed by Yovicsin and predicted that he would have a long tenure. While the terms of his contract were not disclosed, it was for more than one year. Bolles said yesterday that Crimson coaches ordinarily are given three-year contracts...
...committee member said of Yovicsin, "He is accustomed to training People himself, and teaching them the elements of football," and called him "engaging, earnest, with a good sense of humor...
Another important factor in Yovicsin's selection was his commitment to the standards of the Ivy League. "I am very strongly in favor of the Ivy philosophy on athletics," he said last night. If he were to leave Gettysburg, he continued, he had wanted to go to an Ivy League school...
...addition to football, Yovicsin is track coach at Gettysburg. He graduated from that school in 1940 and later played professional basketball, and football with the Philadelphia Eagles. He coached football and basketball at several schools in Pennsylvania and New Jersey before taking an M.S. at Pennsylvania and returning to Gettysburg...