Word: valpey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...field below, a good Harvard team, still badly shorthanded because of injuries, was putting up a game fight against a superb Cornell squad. But the grandstand quarterback didn't see it that way. First he started working over the coaches, as if he expected Art Valpey to rush off the bench and single-handedly half the Big Red tide. But when the Crimson made a good gain on a tricky play, the coach never got credit for devising the play and teaching the team how to execute...
...right flank. What the second-guesser forgot was the Harvard Managed to gain twice as much yardage through the air as on the ground (187 to 91). In fact, lack of defense against short passes was just about the only weakness Cornell showed. It was this that led Valpey to make short passes the key to his "game plan," and the fine showing the Crimson made certainly bore out Valpey's analysis...
...varsity football team began the drive towards its toughest game of the season yesterday, but there was no indication that Art Valpey and his well-tapped men felt pessimistic about their impending visitors from Army...
...Valpey, in a rarely unpessimistic mood, seemed reasonably pleased with what he had seen in the movies of Saturday's embroglio. "They made some improvements, "he commented. "They're coming along. They certainly can hold their heads up after that...
...scouting reports brought back by Bill Barclay have been only partially dissected, so a complete report on the Cadets was not forthcoming. Valpey did remark on the fact that Army has "four or five sophomores" in the defensive platoon that held the strong Michigan attack to seven points Saturday, and allowed its opponents to complete a mere three of 23 pass attempts...