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Nelson, age 30, played three years of football, basketball, and baseball while in college and, in 1940, played wingback in the same backfield with All-America Tom Harmon. He has served as athletic director and head football coach at Hillsdale College, Michigan, for the last two years where his terms ran up a string of 15 consecutive victories...
Michigan's assistant line coach--at present, anyway--Butch Jordan, claimed that Valpey, along with backfield coach Remio Oosterbann, was responsible for many of the Maize and Blue's most intricate offensive manonvers last fall
...Nelson a Backfield Possibility...
Never quite big enough to make first string in his undergraduate days, Davy Nelson is conceded to have the inside track on the Crimson backfield coaching job. Nelson is new head coach of Hillsdale College, Michigan...
Also in the running for the backfield berth is George Ceithaml, B squad coach and captain quarterback of Michigan's 1941 team. But the big objection to Ceithaml is the fact that if he joins Butch Jordan as a Valpey assistant, Crisler will have to build up his coaching staff again from scratch...