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Word: valpey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Valpey's football team, getting its first workout of the week, ground to a halt when the power failure plunged the cage into darkness at five o'clock. The girls were more inventive; they played bridge by candlelight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Light Failure Halts Varsity But Can't Stop Annex Bridge | 10/26/1948 | See Source »

...Valpey got his first taste of a fall nor' caster yesterday and it was pretty sour. If it had been any day but Monday, the weather would have ruined football practice...

Author: By Don Carswell, | Title: Rained-Out Varsity Sees Dartmouth Game Films | 10/26/1948 | See Source »

Fortunately, it was Monday and the main attraction of the day was the cinematic extravaganza entitled "Harvard vs. Dartmouth, a football game." Saturday's films revealed that the varsity was nearly ready. Valpey termed them "70 per cent of the way toward being a polished team," and a polished team is one capable of going all the way on every play...

Author: By Don Carswell, | Title: Rained-Out Varsity Sees Dartmouth Game Films | 10/26/1948 | See Source »

This goes' on for awhile--the Varsity running plays from west to east between the thirty-yard-lines and then turning and running them back the other way, the coaches choosing substitutions from players standing on the field, Art Valpey talking to the quarterbacks, and a sports writer saying to me "See those skinny legs? That's Kenny O'Donnell...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Off The Cuff | 10/23/1948 | See Source »

Then about 5:15 Valpey grunts and everybody runs out of the fenced area to the field next to the Stadium and the lights are turned on. For about ten minutes he talks to the entire squad--about defense, the sports writers say. Then the Jayvees, all wearing white pullovers to prove they are Jayvees, run Dartmouth plays against the Varsity...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Off The Cuff | 10/23/1948 | See Source »

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