Word: benches
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Coaches off Players' Bench...
Opinions of Eastern college baseball captains are divided on the question, "Shall the professional coach be kept from the bench at college baseball games?" The Harvard, Princeton and Amherst captains are not enthusiastic over the adoption of the innovation, while at Yale, Pennsylvania, Brown, Dartmouth, and Williams it is favored. Captain Blossom of the Yale nine writes in the Yale Daily News of the movement...
Shall Coaches Sit on the Bench...
...decidedly in favor of this plan of both teams keeping their coaches from the players' bench, for after the game is over the players will all know that the result of the game was due to their efforts and not to help received during the game from the more experienced professional coach. Not only does this plan put an added responsibility on both the captains and the players, but it will mean that more stress will be put on co-operation and team play. With this in view through the early season, the players will learn to depend on themselves...
...more responsibility upon the players themselves and so to make the game entirely the product of the men on the team. The idea is a good one if it can be practically and fairly worked out. The mere rule that the coach is not allowed on the bench is not sufficient to insure the spirit of the rule against infringement, intentional or non-intentional...