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They closed the doors on varsity football practice for the first time since Art Valpey came to Harvard yesterday. For nearly half an hour the team worked on special Cornell preparations while sports-writers the only people who had never been requested to wait outside watched the lights in the roof of Briggs Cage...
These special "zipper" precautions mean just one thing: That Cornell is probably the best opponent Harvard will face this year. If the Crimson is to make a decent showing, Valpey and his men will have to have some specials tuff...
...Boston writer asked Art if he was confident after the workout. "Confident? What do you mean"" said Valpey. I'm confident that we'll show up for the game." He continued in this merry vein to rate Cornell "among the best four or five in the country. The only thing that's holding Lefty (Lefty James, the Cornell coach) back is his schedule." Cornell, this year, does not have the kind of opposition that makes a national champion...
...Valpey tuned up his passing attack against the freshmen in a semi-live drill and then ran the varsity against dummies. Houston took part in this workout but when the freshmen took over on defense his tackle post was filled by Jerry Kenter. Art Connolly replaced Coan and Duke Sedgewick played Bender's position...
...junior varsity sent a simulated Cornell T attack against the second defense before operations were transplanted to the Cage. For the first defense-setting session, Valpey used Armando Mazzone, Dick Guidera, Kanter, Rosenau, Will Davis, and Dike Hyde in the line, John West and Dave Warden as backers-up, Bottenfield and Shafer as defensive halfbacks, and Noonman and Roche alternating as safety man. This was be revised when the squad get more group work on defenses today...