Word: valpey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard for three periods that by the final quarter, the Elis were just getting knocked down like ducks. "I don't think our reserves were any stronger than theirs," he explained. "I think it was just a case of our hitting harder." O'Donnell added that he thought Coach Valpey "has been sensational" and that if Noonan hadn't been put out of commission in the first quarter Harvard might have won by three or four touchdowns. "Jimmy really found himself as a passer in the Brown game," Kenny pointed out, "and Saturday he might very well have played...
...spectators realized how easy it would have been for the Crimson to split wide open in the first half when passer Jimmy Noonan and spinning fullback Paul Shafer hobbled to the Harvard dressing room. Here was the problem Art Valpey had to solve. Minus a passer (Kenary and Roche could hardly lift their arms above their heads), he had to figure out a way to gain on the ground against a Yale defense that was immediately rigged to stop such an attack...
Bill Conway and quarterback Tex Furse, the Eli backers up, played tight, often drifting in almost to the line of scrimmage, and with straight-ahead man Shafer out of the game, the Elis were able to stop anything through the middle. Valpey solved the problem with two bread-and-butter plays that have been gaining ground all fall--the wing-back off-tackle slant to one flank and the tailback sweep and or cutback to the other. Moffle, the wingback, clicked off 149 yards and tailback Roche added an other 130, including the two payoff long-gainers in the final...
...explain and explain Art Valpey, but it doesn't seem to help you figure out how he walked into Cambridge unpublicized last spring and six months later had a team playing better football than anyone had thought it capable...
...much can be said. He gave Harvard football players a reason for winning--not for the name of Harvard (that had been tried by his predecessor), not for personal glory (he didn't expect to win enough games to make anyone an All-American), but for their coach, Art Valpey...