Word: yovicsin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Head football coach John Yovicsin has decided to turn down the offer to work as a special assistant to Bill Veeck at Suffolk Downs race track in East Boston only a week after accepting the position...
...have completely given up any plans for working at Suffolk Downs." Yovicsin said in a prepared statement released yesterday morning just before he left town for a speaking tour...
Veeck said yesterday, "We regret that Mr. Yovicsin won't be abailable. We regret the Harvard has put him in a position where he is unable to accept...
...only is it a travesty that Harvard should offer him a choice between the two, but it would be disgraceful if the University seized upon this opportunity to send Yovicsin on his way, thereby ridding Harvard of a coach who has not measured up to its expectations on the field. Such a suggestion will obviously receive no documentation from Harvard officials, but is a reasonable conjecture nevertheless. There are indications that Yovicsin has agreed to quit Suffolk Downs before starting work there, so Harvard will not have the chance to kiss him goodbye because of a refusal to resign from...
...Harvard has been negligent of John Yovicsin's rights as an individual. If University officials did indeed give him an either-or ultimatum, they should retract it and tell him what he does with his extra time is his business, not Harvard...