Word: yovicsins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coach John Yovicsin didn't plan such a one-sided romp. In fact he put in the second, third and fourth string teams to keep things charitable. However, these reinforcements scored 27 points, three more than the first string...
...Yovicsin substituted freely in the fourth period, but the Crimson attack was not weakened. Jim Reynolds took a lateral from John O'Grady and passed to sophomore Steve Harrison for a touchdown. Walter Johnson intercepted a pass and ran for a touchdown. Joe Roda passed to Dennis Sullivan for a touchdown. Rex Blankenship lateralled to Harrison for the final touchdown. Szaro converted on all but one and somewhere in the Stadium two dogs yawned...
...lousy game. Yale pushed Harvard all over the place for thirty minutes. Dowling's untouchable credentials looked pretty impressive. Harvard couldn't move, Yovicsin put in Champi, and a combination of Yale ineptness, Harvard's perfection and an incredible set of circumstances led to the tie. For the Boston papers it was THE GAME of the century, and Champi was immortal...
...deification. He was a substitute quarterback stepping into a hero's role. The old American success story. But in America heroes don't lose. And Champi knew when he came back to pre-season drills that he couldn't match his clippings. He admitted it. Harvard undergraduates knew it. Yovicsin, his staff, and Champi's teammates knew it. But the Boston papers chose to ignore...
...when Yovicsin admitted that Champi was his starting quarterback, but not his only one, a Boston paper ran a lengthy feature in its Sunday section. Naturally, when Harvard looked sluggish against Holy Cross and lost to B.U. people started wondering. What's wrong with Champi? When Champi quit the squad last week, the amount of coverage he received was not only far out of proportion but almost shamefully unnecessary...