Word: yovicsins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cold outside Dillon Field House yesterday afternoon. It was after five o'clock, and it was quite dark. The Crimson, under the direction of veteran coach John Yovicsin, was practicing on a field near the track bubble, and the turf was so wet, slippery, and sponge-like it really didn't seem worth...
...additional hindrance could be Yovicsin's shuffling of his offensive backfield. After the loss to Princeton, the Crimson coach made it clear that senior Dave Smith would no longer be his regular quarterback. So, when Harvard takes the field today, junior Joe Roda will be the fifth man to direct a Crimson attack this fall, and the ninth to throw the ball...
...come to pass. I've got momentum now, and it's going to take a mighty force to derail me. I'm fortunate again today to have a fairly predictable bunch of games, and probably only the Princeton Yale affair could turn out to be a blemish. But Coach Yovicsin has acknowledged how difficult it often is to make such prognostications, "Hell, I don't know anything about comparing football teams." he said after the Princeton game. "I don't know how you guys predict games." he added...
HARVARD-BROWN: A biggie If Elvis Presley and Paul Anka made comebacks, maybe John Yovicsin and Harvard football can, too. But if not in Providence, when pray tell? One hopeful sign is that Fred Gajewski's finger is healed, and the Gorilla says he's ready to plug up some of those big holes again. Yovicsin said last Saturday to the press. "We're not a real good football team. I'm sure you fellows know that. "Well, today he and his boys go to Providence with reasonable hopes of bringing back an even record. Look, Sec Joe throw. Brown...
...shocked, to say the least, by Yovicsin's post-touchdown strategy. The situation called for an outsides kick so that we could get the ball back and score in the final second. But Billy Kelly stayed on the bench and Szaro kicked a regular old kickoff, and it ended. Yovicsin, though clearly disappointed, seemed to be taking it in stride after the gam. "I have a lot of fun coaching," he said...