Word: valpey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Circumstantial evidence does not favor the first assumption. For a coach whose team lost eight of nine games, Valpey has received an amazingly minor share of grandstand criticism...
Sportswriters rated lack of material a much greater factor in the team's nose-dive than lack of coaching skill. Pressure from the outside for Valpey's dismissal has come only in isolated cases...
Student opinion, and most significantly opinion among members of the squad, has been definitely in favor of Valpey. Spectators remember the long injury list, the fine if losing games with Army, Cornell, and Princeton...
...other hand, Valpey may be quitting to save his career. A clean break and fresh start from the bottom might eradicate the miserable 1949 record and place Valpey on the list of available small school coaches rather than that of coaches who are closer to the "big time," who have irrefutable excuses, but who nevertheless have never...
...other men were with Valpey when he made his tour of the University of Connecticut's athletic facilities, but their identity remained a mystery which neither Uconn athletic officials nor Valpey himself would clear up. Students who spotted Valpey in the course of his unheralded sight-seeing four did not recognize his two associates. One rumor said they were Valpey's coaching assistants, Elmer Madar and Steve Sebo...