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...HARVARD. Can Milt Holt fill Jim Stoeckel's shoes? Can Joe Restic and his staff come up with replacements for his graduation-depleted defense? If so, the Crimson may take the Ivy crown...
After two disappointing seasons in which Harvard finished with 5-4 (1971) and 4-4-1 (1972) records, many Crimson football fans were ready to give up on coach Joe Restic and his innovative multiple offense system. The fans were yearning for a return to the much more conservative, but winning, days of John Yovicsin, Restic's predecessor...
However, Harvard's 7-2 record in 1973 demonstrated that Restic's daring brand of football could produce success in the Ivy League...
...this affair between Harvard and its more physically endowed, comes a different sort of hero. Eric Crone was such a man. Crone, the quite-often-inconsistent quarterback of Joe Restic's razzle-dazzle ball club, gained immortality among the Crimson football faithful during the Yale game of 1971. With Harvard ahead by a slim lead and little time remaining on the clock, Crone was sent in to eat up time. Eric managed, however, to take the ball into his own end zone and was thumped for a safety. From then on he would be known as "Endzone" Crone, a name...
Harvard's two rivals remain something of a mystery, as the squad has not faced either team this season. Providence, under the piloting of Alex Nahigian, who also is an assistant football coach under Joe Restic, went up against Harvard in the district tourney last year. The Crimson eliminated the Friars and won the tournament with an 8-1 drubbing at Soldiers Field...