Word: camp
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Foot-ball Record for '83, and Past Seasons" by W. C. Camp, Yale. '82, is in press...
Walter C. Camp has been solicited by the New York Club to manage their team for 1884, and they would be fortunate if they could secure his services. But Mr. Camp informed us on Thanksgiving-day that he feared he could not give up his position in Yale College. The success of Yale on both the base-ball and foot-ball fields is largely due to the admirable management of Mr. Camp, who seems to be naturally fitted for a position of the kind. [Clipper...
...annual meeting of the Inter-collegiate Foot-ball Association was held Wednesday at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York. The meeting was called to order by Pres. Thompkins of Yale and showed the following delegates present: Yale, Camp and Tompkins; Columbia, Griffith and Simpkins; Princeton, Peace, Look, Bird and Moffat. The championship was awarded to Yale. Mr. Camp was authorized to have the rules printed and copyrighted. Mr. Appleton stated the position of the Harvard faculty in regard to foot-ball. The following changes were made in the rules: The punter is to have ten instead of six feet...
...instruction whatever in Greek prose or Calculus to surpass in an examination in these studies a set of carefully taught men from some other college, Our victories in rowing, thanks to Col. Bancroft's better coaching, proves the principle; our defeat in foot-ball, thanks partly to Mr. Camp's better coaching, proves the principle also. Moreover, coaching by a competent person does not mean merely better work of the same kind. It means a different kind of work, attention to details, a gradual improvement in the game, elimination of objectionable features. A score of instances could be mentioned...
...corporation hope to find a person to fill this place who shall be at once a college graduate and long identified with college sports. Such a man as Mr. Camp, of Yale, would be what they desire. We are sure that if such a person was found he would fill the place most satisfactorily, but we trust the corporation, in default of a better man, will not take one whom they hope can be trained up to his duties. Such a person would be untrusted, a failure in every sense of the word, and might do much more harm than...