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According to a story in Friday's Boston Globe, Rams head coach Ray Malavasi, a close friend of Restic's, offered him the job early last week and the Harvard coach has been considering it since. A week ago, Malavasi fired offensive coordinator Lionel Taylor and four other assistant coaches...
Last year, Restic was reportedly offered a similar position by the Chicago Bears, but he turned it down, electing to remain at Harvard, where he has coached since 1970. Previously, Restic coached the Hamilton Tiger Cats of the Canadian Football League, where he met Malavasi...
...trades. Widow Georgia, however, inherited 70% of the stock, and, determined to use her clout, started attending Rams workouts. A onetime showgirl, she turned up at training camp in powder blue jogging suits, took a turn at place-kicking and pecked the tobacco-filled cheek of Head Coach Ray Malavasi...
...team wallowed, rumors began flying that the widow was going to fire Coach Malavasi and bring back George Allen, whom her late husband had fired during the pre-season training in 1978 after sharp policy and personality differences. Recalls Defensive End Fred Dryer: "It was a macabre scenario. We were told at times that George Allen was showing up, that [Coach] Don Shula was on the next plane from Miami. If this was a soap opera, you couldn't make a script for it. No one would believe...
...Coach Malavasi survived, barely ("This is the roughest season I've ever been through"), and so did Mrs. Rosenbloom, despite the efforts of the Los Angeles press. The Times assigned two newsmen to poke into her past for a month and reported that she had been married five times before wedding the Rams' owner and that her first marriage had been annulled when she was 15½ years...