Word: seasons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Phillips Brooks House, which sponsored the admission of 100 to 800 boys at each of three games this season, let in only established groups of children such as settlement groups, scout troops, and YMCA groups, with the regular advisors as chaperones...
Take a quick glance at the roster of this year's hockey team, and you'll think for sure that the squad can't miss having a wonderful season. But look a little closer, and you may want to reserve your judgment for a while...
...expected that a former Harvard captain and all-American as prominent in the public eye as Hamilton Fish would have something to say about this season. It is hard to understand, however, why he chose an open letter to four publications to castigate to coach who has done his best. It is hard to understand how Fish could have changed from the helping alumnus he seemed in 1948 to the jealous guardian of past Harvard glory that he now claims...
...Valpey had too many trick plays instead of a few simple basically sound ones, well executed, and he failed to provide protection for his passers. I think Harvard material was well above average this year, and it is unfair to them to have to participate in such a lamentable season...
...want you to know that I do not join in the criticism that you are being subjected to, both by Harvard graduates and the Press, as to your responsibility because of your having hired Arthur Valpey as head coach, and on account of the dismal failure of the 1949 season. I confess that I agreed with your selection of Valpey last year, and believed that, given time, he would make his cycle offense work, and would build up a victorious team this year. Unfortunately, Valpey and his assistants not only did not live up to expectations, but produced the most...