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...main ballroom was jammed with football enthusiasts for the Gridiron Club's annual dinner. Harlow was seated at the head table three places away from his successor, Art Valpey. He looked tired and now and then he smiled a little weakly. While other diners wolfed down huge planks of roast beef and mountainous ice cream and fruit concoctions, he rolled a boiled potato around his plate as though it was something less than a loose ball and made uninspired passes at some specially prepared orange juice he had brought with him from Maryland...
...thanked the club. To Valpey he spoke of the fairness of local sportswriters and his friendship for them. Slowly the old Harlow fire returned. He praised the fine relationships he had always had with the press and with Harvard alumni and he hoped they would continue for Valpey. By the end of his speech his voice was tremendous, although one of the older members whispered, "You should have heard him 12 years...
Addressing most of his remarks to successor Art Valpey; also present at the head table, Harlow spoke of the exceptional friendship and fairness of local newsmen, and of the fine relationships between himself and Harvard...
...Newspaper men," says Art Valpey, "never seem to understand the great gap between playing and observing the game--the team is never as bad as the press makes it out when it is losing and it is never as good as the newspapers say when it is winning." Well, his boys are neither winning nor losing games this spring, but already the sportswriters are dusting off the crystal ball...
Here's what one leading New York football columnist saw last week: "Harvard should stage a strong comeback ... the Johnnies figure to blast Yale and perhaps upset Princeton... Jim Kenary, a needle-point passer, will be cast for the role of Chappuis in Art Valpey's version of the Michigan offense. .. Hal Moffie, Harvard's seatback, can ontrun anybody on the Yale squad... Chip Gannon is due for a big year at Cambridge. .. Bob DlBiasio is the lad Yard birds tout as a 'second Mahan'... Tom Guthrie will be eligible next fall...