Word: coaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next to "You can't win 'em all," the favorite post-game platitude of the football coach is "Can't tell a thing until I see the movies...
...when the gridiron has turned into a scientific laboratory, the modern football strategist does little more than got his hands cold of a Saturday afternoon. The real mental battle takes place several hours later in the warmth and quiet of a projection room. Here is where the coach sifts the men from the boys, and alibis vanish at 82 frames per second...
Gelotte and his cameras have been telling the fans where to got off ever since Gelotte and Richard Hallowell '20 showed Varsity coach Amie Horween in 1928 what could be done with a fast-moving shutter...
This afternoon Gelotte and an assistant will set up shop high over the Harvard-Yale game to tell Coach Valpey what happened in thousands of pictures worth millions of words. The reels may go in moth balls soon after today's battle, but when Spring and pre-season practice call again, the coaches will once more study the movies, an indelibe guide to the football strategy of the future
...steps of the greatest college library in the world proved to be a perfect sounding-board for the music of the band and the cheers of the crowd, and, thanks to a temporary microphone system, even the speeches were audible. Head Coach Art Valpey spoke first, and while he "felt it would be inhospitable to say much about tomorrow's game," he assured the crowd that "they could be proud of the team...