Word: valpey
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...never ending quest for perfection, Valpey ran his "A" and "B" teams through their entire repertoire of plays at the rate of slightly more than four plays a minute. Lest the men got out of practice, they carried out their blocking assignments against dummies bolstered by large linemen. Nobody seemed out of practice; on every play at least one dummy and lineman would go crashing down from a vicious block...
...Arthur Valpey passed his first examination at Harvard. The new coach should be happy over his opening victory. When Arnie Horween took over the job in '26, Harvard lost its opener to Geneva (of all teams...
...riot of offensive football, in which young Arthur Valpey's debutante team forced the fight, struck the first blow, dazed a sound 7 1/2 point favorite, and stomped home with an opening day upset which sent its undergraduate contingent into a mass demonstration of delerium...
...Valpey has done an astonishing job. A devotee of punch, rather than duck, he has fashioned a football team that gulps up yardage like every guy was promised a now suit of clothes for a 30-yard run," Nason went on, somewhat more enthusiastically than grammatically...
Vern Miller, also of the Globe, heaped another load of the weed of praise on the Valpey system, calling the upset a "staggering and glittering offensive victory . . . certainly the most spectacular Harvard decision over a major opponent in a decade . . . one of hope for Collegiate football's future in New England...