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After Delgallo's departure, Rizzo said he made inquiries with Athletic Director John Yovicsin concerning the funds. Rizzo said Yovicsin contacted him this fall and "I was told they were still looking into the matter...
...Harvard Mr. Naturals who have sat through two unfruitful years of Resticball, the dialogue above is becoming increasingly significant. After all, when Joe Restic succeeded John Yovicsin as head football coach, the event was heralded as an innovative rain after the 14-year drought of Yovvy's straight-laced and conservative football style...
...sweep-left-sweep-right-dive" philosophy, Restic, lover of the multiple set and the man in motion, was going to provide just the right transfusion to cure Harvard's anemic football tradition. Why, Restic even promised that his teams would throw the football, a radical departure from the conservative Yovicsin regime in which the only passes at Harvard games were the ones gallantly offered by the band's drumbearers to visiting cheerleaders. No doubt about it, Harvard fans enthused, Joe Restic was going to bring something innovative and wonderful to Harvard Stadium...
Certainly the Crimson coach has introduced theories which Harvard football fans have never seen. The gridiron Puritanism that characterized Yovicsin's football philosophy has been transformed into a wild athletic gadabout. Shifts, multiple sets, motion, passes, reverses, along with a host of other different--and sometimes unorthodox--techniques, have become part of the Harvard football vocabulary...
...sophomore-laden squad that sent Yovicsin into a happy "retirement" with an impressive 7-2 record in 1970 languished around the .500 mark during Restic's first two seasons, finishing 5-4 the first year, and following with a 4-4-1 mark (4-3 and 3-3-1, respectively, in the Ivy League...