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...weren't too pleased with the script ABC gave us," Crimson head coach Joe Restic commented yesterday. Normally, Restic's crew finishes its pre-game drills at 1:20, returns to Dillon Field House for some last minute instructions before retaking the gridiron...
Meanwhile, as Restic termed it, Harvard's cast of characters tightened up during the 25 minute wait. "We left the field feeling 'up,' but the guys seemed to waste adrenalin and lose that extra edge...
...Restic believes that the lengthy interlude contributed to Harvard's first quarter woes, but he is not about to badmouth the TV folks. "It's a motivational factor in itself," a necessary evil in any non-league affair. "Unlike the Brown game, however, TV really didn't add any pressure because we were confident that we could execute properly...
Last year, ABC covered Harvard's romp over the Brown Bruins in Providence, a game in which TV heated the battle for the Ivy crown. Restic, who says he's not even conscious that he's on the tube once the initial whistle blows, believes that players lose sight of the TV aspects as the game progresses...
Actually, Restic's lone concern about the ominous presence of the ABC crew revolved around the politics of coaching. The largest question mark in the minds of the Harvard braintrust was "Who do we send out for the introductions?" Not about to tee-off either his defensive or offensive units (an intense intra-squad rivalry in itself), Restic affected a classic 'great compromise' by sending out the starters on the 1975 Ivy League championship squad...