Word: brawn
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...experienced men but for all in the University who are interested in the game, especially those who expect to go out for the team in the fall. Coach Burgess has often stressed the point that little or not experience is needed for good players to be developed, and that brawn is not so essential as brains...
Brains Needed More Than Brawn...
Although by no means a mollycoddle's game, soccer is a sport where weight or height are not essential attributes of a star player. It is a fast; clean game, where brains are more necessary than brawn. Not a man of the Harvard University of Freshman squad was injured this year in a playing season lasting from October first to the end of November, with games weekly and practice daily; and it need only be said by the writer that after sixteen years playing as a professional in Scotland and England he bears not a mark, to show that...
...football situation was soon referred to again. Paper dope can never be relied on, but undoubtedly the system being broken by the war had a lot to do with it. The greatest mistake by far was, however, the use of old-fashioned football. It's different now, not brawn but 99 percent brains. There won't be any mistakes next year and every one is confident of success...
...prevent stalling would of course be advantageous to a physically strong team. Suppose that a Harvard team, the inferior of a Yale team in brawn, but equal in knowledge of football, managed to score first. Its only hope would be to stall, to oppose their wits to their opponent's strength. And this I call perfectly good football...