Word: benchful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Weary of living in hall bedrooms, wearing second hand clothes and thumbing ledgers; of fame that comes through new filing systems and of love on a park bench; weary of the present day "realism" and all that it implies, it is pleasant to find a book that deals, virllely enough, with beauty and gallantry--and villainy. There is more than enough of present friction that tells us of our own civilization and mechanics, when God knows we see too much of it day by day; more than enough of the "romance of business" which is no romance. Inevitably are there...
Your next suggestion of not allowing a coach on the bench is ridiculous when you stop to think of the responsibility it would place on the captain who has all he can do to run the game on the field as it is. He would have to be thinking continually of who to substitute and when besides watching for what men are playing badly. In a year like next when the captain is quarterback it would be almost impossible. Further more, as long as coaches are graduates, as they all are here, why should they not tell a player...
...certain extent the criticism of the suggestion that coaches be not allowed to sit on the bench with the players during a game is sound. Of course it would not be possible for the captain, playing in the game, to make substitutions. But, as is now done in some school games, a members of the team who is on the sidelines, could be put in charge of them; this would make the team, during a game entirely a unit by itself. Except for the talk given by he coach between the halves, no one outside the team would have anything...
...coach shall sit on the sideline bench or communicate with the players on the field or on the bench during the periods of play...
Score: Yale 1925, 26; Harvard 1925, 18. Goals from floor: Williams 6, Samborski 3, Suisman 2, Merriam 2, Luman, Bench, Scully. Goals from fouls: Samborski 6, Williams 4, Suisman, Bench. Referee: Paul Mooney, New York University. Timekeeper: S. A. Koshland '25, Time of halves: 20 minutes...