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...main ballroom was jammed with football enthusiasts for the Gridiron Club's annual dinner. Harlow was seated at the head table three places away from his successor, Art Valpey. He looked tired and now and then he smiled a little weakly. While other diners wolfed down huge planks of roast beef and mountainous ice cream and fruit concoctions, he rolled a boiled potato around his plate as though it was something less than a loose ball and made uninspired passes at some specially prepared orange juice he had brought with him from Maryland...
Dick Harlow returned briefly to Boston yesterday, and the Gridiron Club of Greater Boston honored the retired Crimson football coach in its annual dinner last night at the Copley Plaza...
Lone serious note of the program was injected by new football coach Art Valpey who promised "to build a gridiron squad in keeping with past Harvard tradition if the Freshmen and the rest of the College would think only of the team and not sympathize with any individuals...
Here are the men who will guide the Crimson's '48 gridiron policy: from left to right, they are, Davey Nelson, backfield coach, head coach Art Valpey, "Butch" Jordan, line coach, and Captain Ken O'Donnell. The general staff will be completed tomorrow with the arrival of Elimer Madar, who will tutor the Crimson ends this fall...
Coach Henry Lamar, who also grooms Freshman gridiron combinations, has been drilling Yardlings and upperclassmen daily since the Yale game in Fundamentals of Pugilism 1a, and predicted mentals of Pugilism...