Word: valpey
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...Valpey is no fool. He won a national scholarship once. He knows the switch to Cambridge means forsaking a land of plenty for a relative land of famine. He knows he won't find the big, corn-fed beeves here he found roaming Midwestern gridirons...
With a fatherly pat on the head, the Boston sports columnists have welcomed Arthur Valpey to the Harvard scene. Most of them have taken great care to show him that Harvard football is not Michigan football and that he will probably break down and weep when he sees the puny, soft-shell Hahvuds he has inherited. "Good luck, son--you're going to need it!" is the warning...
...assistants isn't the only thing Arthur Valpey will bring with him from Michigan, according to basketball coach Bill Barclay...
Barclay should know. He became "a very close friend" of Valpey's when the two played on the same Wolverine elevens in '35, '36, and '37. Both men broke into the Michigan coaching organization together...
...Crimson basketball coach considers Valpey easy to get along with. "He uses his head," Barclay says...