Word: coaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writing behind the by-line has covered Harvard football for a Boston newspaper from the Valley Forge of Coach Dick Harlow's postwar informals right up to today's Yale game. Perhaps better than any other undergraduate he knows what has to be done to make a football team out of a group of half-a-ahundred first day candidates...
...days of last Spring when I was making time on the Charles River's banks, they were over at Soldiers Field every afternoon listening to a new coach explain a new system. And as the days became lazier, they put on pads and helmets and put into practice a strange system of football. At times they wished that they had never come out. A half dozen quit. Yet in the end, they slowly became aware that they were learning to move the ball. Spring practice was over, and soon after, they were off to Summer jobs...
Well, you all remember how we won the Columbia game. We moved up into national prominence overnight. It always makes me laugh when I think that everyone forgot to listen to Coach Valpey's words: "We're far from being a team yet." The most significant single factor towards helping the Crimson in that opening game was discovery of a young man named Phil Isenberg, a backer...
Slow men will run fast and fast men--well, they'll just "take off," as backfield Coach Davy Nelson would say--when Harvard and Yale meet for the sixty-fifth time today at 1:45 p.m. in the Stadium. Approximately 57,000 partisans have anteed up as much as $30 apiece for the privilege of watching the Crimson and the Blue match new coaches against each other for the first time since...
That the new coach should turn out to be an All-American guard, should weigh 331 pounds, and should be the best after-dinner speaker since Jimmy Conzelman (now of the Chicago Cardinals), were just added attractions. The only thing Herman Hickman had to be was a bright young...