Word: muste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There must be two or three alumni in each state who would be willing to spend their Saturday afternoons looking for talent among the high schools in their area. Some of this talent will want to go to Notre Dame, some of it will be bought up and sent to the big Southern schools. Harvard can't get these boys, and Harvard probably doesn't want many of them, for football players should never be allowed to come here unless they can pass entrance exams in equal competition with their less agile contemporaries...
...Administration decides to continue its hyper-hands-off football policy, then certain things must be done. First, we should play only the three traditional Ivy rivals, Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth, and pad the rest of the schedule with Amherst, Connecticut, and N.Y.U. Under this system we could easily achieve a season record which could always be better than .500. Unfortunately, since Dartmouth, Princeton, and Yale are already out beating the bushes for young football players, we suspect that our traditional rivals will win about 75% of those games...
...aren't 50 or 60 boys who want to come to Harvard, who are bright enough to get here, and who can also lug a football with enough finesse to make Harvard an Ivy League power once again. For every football player who comes to Dartmouth from Hawaii there must be another who would come to Harvard if he got the chance...
...continue to play Ivy League football, we must broaden the personnel at Valpey's disposal. It might be nice to upset Stanford or Army or Cornell with a team playing strictly for fun, but it is not morally justifiable to ask such a team to expose itself to a steady stream of almost inevitable injuries. Such a casualty list as this year's is a direct result of playing a schedule composed exclusively of teams which are not only deeper in talent but also deeper in numbers. One group of eleven men playing against two groups of eleven men gets...
...need not be corrected by a revision of Harvard's schedule, if some changes are made in the attitude towards athletes here. It must not be corrected by a program of athletic scholarships--that we believe most firmly has no place at Harvard. We can play respectable football by merely loosening the stranglehold that the Administration has on any move to give athletes an given chance. But the crucial concern right now is that no attempt to change the situation involve the firing of Arthur Valpey, who may not be the genius he was hailed as last year...