Word: valpey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well, you all remember how we won the Columbia game. We moved up into national prominence overnight. It always makes me laugh when I think that everyone forgot to listen to Coach Valpey's words: "We're far from being a team yet." The most significant single factor towards helping the Crimson in that opening game was discovery of a young man named Phil Isenberg, a backer...
Both men, Harvard's youthful Art Valpey and Yale's jovial Herman Hickman have had their troubles this year in their first crack at bigtime head-coaching. Of the two, Hickman probably got the most sleep last night, at Eli headquarters in the Hotel Bellevue. Here...
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...
...that he relaxes. The sawed-off ex-halfback spends the 60 minutes of play talking into a telephone which runs to the bench, where quarterbacks and coaches can check on the progress of the week's game plan; between halves he talks to the signal callers and gives Valpey a quick recap of the effectiveness of Crimson formations...
Under Benny Oosterbaan, Valpey, and other members of the staff, Davey set about a task which, to the layman at least, is about as simple as taking apart an airplane engine...