Word: valpey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This afternoon Gelotte and an assistant will set up shop high over the Harvard-Yale game to tell Coach Valpey what happened in thousands of pictures worth millions of words. The reels may go in moth balls soon after today's battle, but when Spring and pre-season practice call again, the coaches will once more study the movies, an indelibe guide to the football strategy of the future
...Valpey Speech...
...steps of the greatest college library in the world proved to be a perfect sounding-board for the music of the band and the cheers of the crowd, and, thanks to a temporary microphone system, even the speeches were audible. Head Coach Art Valpey spoke first, and while he "felt it would be inhospitable to say much about tomorrow's game," he assured the crowd that "they could be proud of the team...
...captains followed Valpey. Vince Moravee, captain of last year's team and part-time coach this season, pointed to the Freshman and Jayvee games as an indication of things to come, while Cleo O'Donnell addressed his remarks to a small but extroverted group of Elis who were singing bravely but unnoticed at the edge of the crowd. "I think they should come out of the cover of darkness," O'Donnell said, "because they certainly won't have much to cheer about tomorrow...
Some men are natural leaders, others shove it down your throat. Arthur L. Valpey, Jr. has never shoved anything down anyone's throat. He just explains in his relaxed, quiet way what he would like to see done, and they try to do it, and more--"they" meaning not only the 44 men on the Varsity football squad, but also the assistant coaches, team doctors, grounds keepers, sports writers, and, in fact, everyone who knows him and his job of football...