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Late last fall, the newspapers in the Cincinnati area carried a story concerning the plans of Harvard College to "de-emphasize" football (although I am curious to learn how it had been "emphasized" in the last few years). And on yesterday, they carried the story that Art Valpey had resigned his coaching position at Harvard to take another at the University of Connecticut. Although I have not bad the opportunity to poll the alumni in this area, I am certain that the majority received both reports with a great deal of disappointment, as well as resentment...
...reports which have issued from Cambridge indicate that Valpey decided that he could no longer do a job commensurate with his ability under the policies formulated by athletic director Bingham and his associates in the administration. There can be no denying that in recent years, there has been a sustained effort to discredit intercollegiate competition by Harvard teams and to treat such sports as football as a "necessary evil...
...successor, Valpey will leave a complete file on every Harvard game in the past two years--how many times each play was run off by each team, what formations each team used on offense and defense, which spots in which line proved most vulnerable. None of this reference material was available to him when he arrived in Cambridge two years ago; but it doesn't seem to be in Valpey's nature to leave any part of a job undone...
Those who heard his speech at the Alumni meeting the night before the Princeton game were convinced that Valpey, unlike most of the men involved in present-day football, knew that the current situation in the colleges was unhealthy. They realized that he was a man who would not be afraid to lead a college that would follow him to a saner plane of operation...
...will be difficult to find another coach who can approach Valpey's intelligence on the big questions connected with his work, for that intelligence springs from more than technical competence. There will always be amateurism in college sports as long as gentlemen like Arthur Valpey are involved...