Providence Coach to Join Restic Staff

Alex Nahigian, present head baseball coach at Providence College and an assistant football coach at Brown for the last 24 seasons, will be coming to Harvard this fall to assist head football mentor Joe Restic.

Nahigian, who led Providence to the NCAA Division I baseball finals last weekend before the Friars lost out to Harvard, will handle the Crimson linebackers. The defensive backfield will be Nahigian's secondary concern.

Nahigian, who coached with Restic when the Crimson head man was an assistant at Brown from 1956 to 1958, will also do extensive scouting for Harvard. "In addition to his coaching abilities, he's one of the finest scouts in the country," Restic said at the time of Nahigian's appointment. "We're quite pleased to have Alex on our staff."

Nahigian will not relinquish his baseball duties at Providence because of the Harvard job. He will continue as Friar head man in addition to his fall responsibilities in Cambridge.

Injury Ends Career

Nahigian graduated in 1942 from Holy Cross, where he played football until an injury ended his career. He joined the Brown football staff in 1949 and has served under four Bruin head coaches.

While Brown football hasn't reaped many benefits from Nahigian's talents--the Bruins are the perennial doormats of the Ivy League--he has been most successful at Providence. His baseball teams have complied a 140-113-2 record in his 14 years there, and six of his last Friar teams have participated in the NCAA District I championships.