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Since then, Valpey's lads have slogged through six weeks of spring training and have been belting the daylights out of each other on Soldiers Field since September 7. The answer is still "yes." The 1948 schedule is all meat. As of today, the Varsity is rated as underdog against Columbia, Army, Princeton and Dartmouth. Yale, Holy Cross, Brown and Cornell are regarded as tossups...
Harvard's coaching staff will play this underdog angle to the hilt. No creampuff opener has been selected. When the Crimson goes against Columbia a week from Saturday, Valpey's Michigan single-wing magic will be unveiled for the first time...
There are plenty of towels of all shapes and sizes at Soldiers Field these days, but you won't find any of they crying variety. That's why Coach Valpey refuses to discuss the seven Sophomores who played first string Freshman ball last fall and have now dropped out of the picture...
...Briefly, Valpey has a strong end corps, headed by Sophomore Bob DiBlasio; a potential all-American tackle in Howie Houston (he was included this month on several national all-American listings); four evenly-matched centers; and a flock of adequate backs...
Time. That's one of the handicaps Harvard must overcome. The practice clock is running out, and the Varsity is still more or less in fundamentals. "We're never going to get fancy until we have precision," warns Valpey. Pitchouts and end-arounds will presumably have to wait until the single-wing fundamentals are polished to gem-like brilliancy...