Word: valpey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Valpey is no fool. He won a national scholarship once. He knows the switch to Cambridge means forsaking a land of plenty for a relative land of famine. He knows he won't find the big, corn-fed beeves here he found roaming Midwestern gridirons...
With a fatherly pat on the head, the Boston sports columnists have welcomed Arthur Valpey to the Harvard scene. Most of them have taken great care to show him that Harvard football is not Michigan football and that he will probably break down and weep when he sees the puny, soft-shell Hahvuds he has inherited. "Good luck, son--you're going to need it!" is the warning...
What he will find here though, is material potentially on a par with the teams he will face on next fall's "back-breaking" schedule. Best of all, Valpey will find a team which should adapt itself well to the Crisler system he has said he will employ. The single-wing is the basic Crisler formation (he uses/about 7, with a total of 170 or so plays). But Crisler doesn't use the single-wing exclusively for the power it was designed to produce. By lining up in a T, with an unbalanced line, and the quarterback up over center...
...from the T. He never used a spinner (one of the Crisler essentials) because he built his attack around the straight-ahead over power of Vinnie Moravec. When Moravec got hurt, it was too late to scrap the system. Here is the biggest single problem facing Valpey: in order to employ the razzic-dazzle, split-second timing offensive he knows so well, he must find a fullback who can spin and who can handle the ball slickly...
...Crimson basketball coach considers Valpey easy to get along with. "He uses his head," Barclay says...