His 14-year record of 77-48-5 places him second on Harvard's all-time football coaching victory list, but a win Saturday would tie him with John Yovicsin for first place on the list.

Two victories this season will make Restic Harvard's all-time winningest coach.

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This year marks the second in a row that Harvard has traveled to Columbia for the season opener. That's because the two Harvard-Columbia games before last year were both played here, when construction of the Lawrence A. Wien Stadium at Baker Field took place.

Harvard was on hand for the ceremonies when Columbia's new stadium opened last fall, and you better believe Restic & Co. will be happy to be back there Saturday.

Restic, who sports a 13-1 lifetime record against Columbia, has never lost an away game against the Lions. He's 6-0 against Columbia on the road.

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From the Saint's file, senior running back Robert Santiago is looking to become the first Crimson running back since Vic Gatto to earn first team All-Ivy honors two straight years. Gatto turned the feat in 1967 and 1968.

Santiago enters the 1985 season with 1002 career yards and needs just 706 yards to pass Jim Callinan for fifth place on the all-time Harvard career rushing list.

Santiago's 822 yards a year ago put him at number four among Harvard's all-time single-season rushing leaders.

Interestingly enough, the San Antonio, Tex. native rushed for one-quarter of his season total a year ago in the season opener at Columbia. His 204 yards on 24 carries was the second-best effort ever by a Harvard running back, and the best since Vern Struck's 1937 effort of 233 yards against Princeton.

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Columbia Coach Jim Garrett makes his debut back in the college ranks this weekend, but considering the past success of Lion coaches, Garrett might just wish he were back at Susquehanna College, where he compiled a 39-11-1 coaching record from 1960-65.

The average winning percentage of the last four Lion coaches--whose tenures date from 1957-1984--is 245. Bob Naso, the latest casualty at Columbia, lasted five years. That was enough time to pick up a 081 winning percentage.

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