Word: valpey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five who might be playing tomorrow will be out of action, and yet Barnaby, like Valpey, doesn't complain. "We're going to Dartmouth to win, and we expect to do it," he stated. His attitude was typical of that of the squad...
This is a free country, and Harvard men believe in academic freedom. If Harvard undergraduates and football players, past and present, want to retain Valpey as head coach, that's all there is to it, but let's have an open and free discussion of a difficult and vexatious problem before it is too late...
There are at least a score of available experience coaches and successful professional players, including some former Harvard players, such as Charley Buell, Charley Crowley, Eddie Maham and "Chuck" Peabody who could make good and restore Harvard football prestige, but unfortunately Valpey is not one of them. His plays were too complicated, caused too many fumbles, had no power plays, and failed lamentably in forward passing, and also in the fundamentals, particularly in blocking, interference and tackling. Obviously Valpey had too many trick plays instead of a few simple basically sound ones, well executed, and he failed to provide protection...
...views by expressing them to you, and releasing them to the Press. I want you to know that I do not join in the criticism that you are being subjected to, both by Harvard graduates and the Press, as to your responsibility because of your having hired Arthur Valpey as head coach, and on account of the dismal failure of the 1949 season. I confess that I agreed with your selection of Valpey last year, and believed that, given time, he would make his cycle offense work, and would build up a victorious team this year. Unfortunately, Valpey...
...Valpey and his assistants should be retired immediately and at all costs, whether it means adjustment of the contract or not. You are not responsible for the coaching and its success. That responsibility rests with Mr. Valpey and his assistants. I have seen every Harvard-Yale game (with one exception during the war--1941) sine 1905. The Yale-Harvard game this year was the worst exhibition of football that I have ever seen by a Harvard team. The record of having lost all six of the "Ivy" football games speaks for itself...