Word: valpey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Valpey tried to make it two out of three, but his men simply weren't up to it. Valpey, you will recall, gathered up his Michigan style single wing offense and his hulking line coach (Butch Jordan) last spring and moved operations to the University of Connecticut. His Harvard teams defeated Yale once in two encounters and now his first Uconn eleven has failed in its attempt to be the only-football team from the State of Connecticut to boat Yale in 75 years. The New Haven crowd claims this would be a bad precedent...
Just ten days before Yale met the Huskies, Herman Hickman, the Yale coach, was quoted as saying: "This team lacks poise, and desperately needs the confidence an opening-game victory would bring, but Valpey is leveling at us with a veteran Connecuticut squad that is big and fast...
...succeeding events were to prove, Valpey is not a veteran squad. It is not especially big and it is not fast. The Uconns gave the impression that they were not yet Completely certain of their assignments; their backs lacked the assurance and the precision of a Bill Henry and their linemen were not able to open holes in the Eli defense with any consistency...
...Valpey used a five-four defensive alignment, which was probably the best possible defense against Yale. But he experienced the same difficulty he run into here last year; he does not have the defensive ends who can make this defense work...
...September 30. Actually, Columbia plays Hobart on that date and Harvard starts action a week later against the Lions. Woodward also lists Arthur Sampson as one of four men who "induced flashes of Spartanism" in Harvard football. The other three are former coaches Arnold Horween, Harlow, and Art Valpey. Sampson, former director of publicity for the H.A.A., is now a Boston sportswriter...