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...announcement yesterday afternoon of Restic's three-year appointment came seven months after the start of an exhaustive search for a replacement for retiring John Yovicsin. Over 80 individuals were considered, but only 15 were intensely examined by the committee set up to find the coach...
...picked his five-man varsity staff, but he will interview Yovicsin's six assistants today and make his decisions within a week so that anyone without a job can look for one at the big coaches' conference next week in New Orleans. It seems unlikely that he will retain...
Jelic was extremely popular with the players he has coached at Harvard, but the committee was apparently more interested in finding a completely new person, someone not in the "Yovicsin mold," as one member put it. In addition, if Jelic had been selected, he would have faced some difficult personal situations in deciding which members of the present staff to keep...
...member of the group which selected the coach expressed satisfaction that the Boston papers had been unable to guess who Yovicsin's successor was "Joe Concannon [of the Boston Globe] was really beating the bushes," he said. The committee member said that some of the names mentioned by papers appeared after reporters found their names in Boston hotel logbooks...
...When Yovicsin was selected as Lloyd Jordan's replacement in 1957, speculators were also surprised. He announced last Spring that he would retire after the 1970 season because of a weak heart. Yoviesin is now director of physical training and recreation...