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...four games, will you consider it a successful season?" Art Valpey asked the Boston sportswriters at last winter's get-acquainted meeting. "Yes!" chorused the experts...
Since then, Valpey's lads have slogged through six weeks of spring training and have been belting the daylights out of each other on Soldiers Field since September 7. The answer is still "yes." The 1948 schedule is all meat. As of today, the Varsity is rated as underdog against Columbia, Army, Princeton and Dartmouth. Yale, Holy Cross, Brown and Cornell are regarded as tossups...
Harvard's coaching staff will play this underdog angle to the hilt. No creampuff opener has been selected. When the Crimson goes against Columbia Saturday, Valpey's Michigan single-wing magic will be unveiled for the first time...
...Coach Valpey stresses hitting with the shoulder, and the squad is learning to do this on four flying tackle dummies, recently installed on Soldiers Field...
...have some fire and fight," Coach Valpey told his charges their first day out. Since then, the players have adopted those words. As the team comes out of a huddle, or digs in its toes on defense, you hear them say to each other, "Fire and fight...