Word: artfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Late last fall, the newspapers in the Cincinnati area carried a story concerning the plans of Harvard College to "de-emphasize" football (although I am curious to learn how it had been "emphasized" in the last few years). And on yesterday, they carried the story that Art Valpey had resigned his coaching position at Harvard to take another at the University of Connecticut. Although I have not bad the opportunity to poll the alumni in this area, I am certain that the majority received both reports with a great deal of disappointment, as well as resentment...
Monthly exhibits will become a regular part of the club's activities. In the late spring the Dabblers plan a larger show and will invite several art critics to review...
...Harvard will not only be losing a coach who has a keen eye for his professional future. Art Valpey has managed to build up, through a fairly dismal two year period, a respect and affection in associates that has been remarkable...
This correspondent cannot speak for the players, but in every dealing with the press Art has shown himself a rare bird indeed among the men who make their living from athletics. This has nothing to do with being willing to talk to newsmen, either professional or amateur. No coach nowadays can afford to cut himself off from the press, and the fact that Valpey realized this is in itself nothing extraordinary...
...made the greatest impression on reporters in the post-game conferences in the Field House. He was under increasing pressure this fall as each game came and went, but his manner never changed. After the Holy Cross game, when most men would have been tempted to gloat a little. Art was so quiet you might have thought he didn't care unless you had seen him come out of the dressing room a few minutes earlier. By the time he got into the press conferences and saw Bill Osmanski who had, at that time, won only one less game than...