Word: grids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard, like many other colleges, long feared that attendance would stuffer if games were broadcast over the radio. The College has permitted broadcasts only for the last few years, since it became apparent that air accounts of grid contests actually helped stimulate interest--and gate receipts...
Jaakko Mikkola's runners ran circles around Art Valpey's football squad for two hours yesterday, but when the gazelles had departed the confines of Briggs Cage the massive group of grid hopefuls got even--and good...
Valpey has already made a hit with some football players by his pledge of a hands-off policy regarding grid candidates who also like to play baseball. "That's their own individual problem," he says, "although it may mean starting fall training either with a background, or completely unindoctrinated...
...third man, Jim Kenary, says he "will try to do both." Kenary, last fall's sophomore passing whiz, will attempt to land an outfield berth on the Varsity nine. Presumably, he'll work out on the diamond during early afternoon, and then sprint over to the Cage, where grid drills will be held from 4 to 6 o'clock until after vacation...
Henry Lamar, freshman grid coach, and Chief Boston, jayvee mentor, hold contracts with the H.A.A. which run out in July. According to Director of Athletics William J. Bingham '16, "it's up to Art" whether or not he plans to keep them next year. Valpey declared that he "wants to get a look at" the pair before making any decision...