Word: nelson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slow men will run fast and fast men--well, they'll just "take off," as backfield Coach Davy Nelson would say--when Harvard and Yale meet for the sixty-fifth time today at 1:45 p.m. in the Stadium. Approximately 57,000 partisans have anteed up as much as $30 apiece for the privilege of watching the Crimson and the Blue match new coaches against each other for the first time since...
Pecking over the keyboard are the 12 "Riffs": (left to right) Nancy Ryan '52, Betty Ralph '49, Alice Nelson '51, Kay Matthews '51, Felicia Reed '52, Marianne Piazza '50, Micheline Martin '49, Mary Morgenthall '51, Joan Bennett '52, Linda Cabot '51, Dorothy Lloyd '51, and Carmen Huse...
...some pretty good boys," Nelson admits. "A lot of men were coming out of the service and wanted to go to small colleges...
Putting the single wing into Harvard football has been comparatively easy, at least as far as Nelson's department is concerned. "The system's been evolving since 1940, and a lot of boys out west grew up with it; here we had to teach the backs the feeling of the thing more than the actual execution, which came quickly enough...
...home it must be different. Nelson's two cocker spaniels, Flash and Gooky, will block and tackle for dog biscuits. "And when you ask them what they do on Saturdays," Davey admits craftily, "They stand on their hind legs and pray...