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HARVARD-DARTMOUTH - When I went to the Dartmouth game my freshman year, I showed off to my date by predicting which of John Yovicsin's four plays the quarterback would call next. But the quarterback, John O'Grady, a third stringer thrust into the starting role after Yale game hero Frank "42 Seconds" Champi had retired to write poetry and Dave Smith had sprained his ankle running on to the practice field, threw strikes to the Dartmouth linebackers and the Big Green Indians won, 21-10. Dartmouth went on to a championship season, and O'Grady went on to quarterback...
This year, Yovicsin is planning strategy for the intramural athletic program, my girl friend dumped me. Rod Foster is a fourth string fullback, End Zone Crone is at quarterback, and I can't figure out Restic's plays, much less predict them. It's in the stars Harvard...
PENN-CORNELL -- Penn coach Harry Gamble was feeling a little low after his Quakers had broken. Brown's 12 game losing streak last Saturday, but John Yovicsin, Harvard's winningest, and losingest, football coach who retired in 1970, wrote Gamble a letter of condolence: "Dear Harry, I know how you feel. I too once broke a Brown losing streak back in 1969. But things can only better. I am planning intramural volleyball tournaments now at 60 Boylston St., and last month. I was promoted from the basement to the first floor. So hang in there. Harry Best, Yovvy." Gamble...
...Hugh. I was just thinking that a year ago. Restic and Bostonians buzzing with talk about the revolution he was going to pull off in the Harvard football program. For 13 years, the Crimson had been under the staid hand of John Yovicsin, who strongly believed in the three yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust approach to the game. You know, Yovicsin was pretty Puritan in his outlook--he wanted his squads to take just enough to get by and not give up any frivolous benefits to the opponents. Defense and grind it out'. That fitted John...
...Restic's complex system was not immediately successful, as anyone who sat (and yawned) through many an unexciting afternoon at the Stadium could tell. Restic wanted to bring excitement to Harvard football, but he discovered "that you can't revolutionize a tradition" as old and inbred as Yovicsin's. Harvard didn't adjust to the new way of doing things as readily as one might expect, and the resulting 5-4 season was testimony to the mundane rather than to the exciting...