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...Harvard football Coach Joe Restic scans the page his brow furrows and then his eyes begin to glaze. As he reads and rereads the column of penciled in names. Restic can't suppress a smile the one you get when you've cursed the darkness long enough but you still don't have a match...
Next to the column of names is a list of dates from early September up to the present. The list is evidently growing quickly soon Restic will need a new sheet. The thought doesn't please the veteran mentor...
Before the game the Crimson coaches stressed to their charges the importance of taking advantage of their strong punting game. "We lost that because we turned the ball over," Restic said. With Villanueva's punting average close to 40 yards (though it was 32.5 Saturday), the Harvard mentor figured it this way: "A back who carries for 100 yards on 20 carries, if he fumbles twice, you subtract 80 yards [in lost field position] and he's got a one yard per carry average...
Late in the third quarter, Restic sent senior Greg Gizzi in to do the rest of the signal-calling. In the final quarter, the Crimson out-gained the Green and controlled the ball more than three-fifths of the period. And after Hyland's second interception gave Harvard the ball on the Dartmouth 38, Gizzi directed the Crimson's second scoring drive, culminating in a pitch to Vignali for a one-yard...
...Restic, realizing that his quarterback situation is still far from settled, called Gizzi's performance "deceptive." "You bring someone in at that stage of the game and there's no pressure on him. He did well, but don't get carried away by that...