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...Arthur Valpey passed his first examination at Harvard. The new coach should be happy over his opening victory. When Arnie Horween took over the job in '26, Harvard lost its opener to Geneva (of all teams...
...Horween came on in 1926. Later he turned out to be a good coach. But in 1926 you wouldn't have figured it. A college called Geneva won the opener, and Harvard went on to lose to everybody else except Dartmouth and Tufts...
Casey took over in 1931. Horween had built a terrifically strong squad in his last three years, so Casey could hardly help winning some games. As a matter of fact, he went into the Yale game undefeated. But even at that it was a bad season, because Harvard was sloppy and unspirited, and barely slipped by a lot of teams it should have slaughtered...
...Wood took the opening kickoff and slipped it backwards to Jack Crickard, who slipped it forward for ninety-five yards. Yale was about to be immolated according to prescription. But Harvard never scored, and Albie Booth's fourth-quarter fieldgoal was a one-stroke decline and fall of the Horween empire. During the next three years Harvard ruined Bates and New Hampshire regularly. Period...
That brings us up to tomorrow, and I stand here before you to declare that Art Valpey's first season will not be anything like Horween's or Casey's or Harlow's. This statement rests solidly on an uninformed, sentimental hunch. Besides that, you don't often draw four of a kind...