Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Davey Nelson is the only member of the coaching staff who sees the team play. While Art Valpey and Butch Jordan strain from the bench, and Elmer Madur scouts opponents, Nelson sits snugly in the Stadium press box and watches his backs go through their paces...
...Bill Henry runs the ball game himself," asserts Nelson. "I don't call sequences or plays; but the quarterbacks and defensive centers can check the execution of their plays...
...Nelson is familiar with the Stadium. He tried it out in 1940 when he was the wingback on the Michigan team that shut out Harvard 26-0. The three other men in the backfield were named Tom Harmon, Forrest Evashevski, and Bob West fall...
...years there he got a thorough indoctrination, as did Art Valpey and Davey Nelson, into the art of teaching the Crisler system. Butch selects his players primarily on the basis of intensity, speed, and quickness of reactions. Once he has linemen singled out he keeps after them to hit Iow, hard, and fast, but on matters of stance and position he gives his boys a free hand...
...except that the observations he made from the pressbox, instead of being jotted down in a notebook for future reference, were telephoned direct to the Harvard bench. He studied the offenses of both teams to see which plays were gaining through which slots, and kept feeding the information to Nelson, who relayed it via telephone to the bench along with his own observations. "I was very pleased to finally see the team in action," Elmer reports. "They adjusted well to various defenses, and they took advantage of the breaks...