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Fullbacks Chip Gannon, Paul Shafer and Sam Adams will have to spin with their eyes closed before the more intricate plays can be worked in. "We're a little behind schedule on offense," Valpey reports, "although we may know our fundamentals better than some of the other Ivy colleges...
...Coach Valpey himself supervised play from the sidelines in a T-shirt and slacks, even though visibility was to bad that observers huddled in the pressbox could hardly see the field of play through the murk. Coach Valpey has a word for all this: "fire". It's a word that will be heard often on Soldiers Field this fall...
Football is like any other production: the curtain doesn't go up before a lot of preliminary groundwork. The above action sequence, taken by CRIMSON photographers Pete Mazur and Jack Levy during last spring's practice, shows Art Valpey's squad learning the ABC's the newly-installed Michigan single wing...
Scrimmages were held nearly every Saturday during the six-week spring training phase. Then, as now, the emphasis was on fundamentals. "We're never going to get fancy until we have precision," cautions Coach Valpey...
Sights like the above, where Howie Houston is delivering the key block, may be common in the Stadium this fall. Valpey, who said Howie could have played first-string for Michigan last fall, plans to use the 195-pound tackle as a running guard on offense this year. A 22-year-old Junior, Houston has been included in several preseason all-American listings...