Word: caspar
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Christmas number of Harper's Weekly Caspar Whitney urges that college faculties ought to put an end to "these football junketings which every year, about this season, are labelled 'the annual holiday trip' of the Yale or Princeton or Harvard, as the case may be, 'consolidated football team...
...this week's issue of Harper's Weekly, Caspar W. Whitney says in commenting on the Harvard team: "Barring Gelbert of Pennsylvania, there are no better backs in the country today than Dunlop and Brown, and Wrightington is Gelbert's equal if not superior...
...Caspar Whitney ranks the first ten tennis players of this season as follows: R. D. Wrenn '95, champion; C. B. Neel, F. H. Hovey L. S. '93, W. A. Larned, R. D. Stevens, E. P. Fisher, G. L. Wrenn Jr. '96, M. D. Whitman '99, L. E. Ware '99, G. P. Sheldon...
...Friday evening at the University Club over 200 men, mostly Harvard alumni, listened to an address by Caspar W. Whitney on "Purity in Athletics." The speaker referred to the great menace offered to college athletics by the desire to win at any cost. In this way the semi-professionalism now existing at some colleges is introduced. It rests largely with the alumni to check this dangerous tendency. They should use all their influence to put athletics where they belong-on the basis of true sport...
...Permanent arrangements would lead to uniform playing rules.- (a) The existance of conflicting systems of rules is deplorable: Caspar Whitney in Harper's Weekly, Sept. 28, p. 932; Walter Camp in Outing, Nov., 1895, p. 170.- (b) Permanent rules for Harvard-Yale games would set a standard that would be generally adopted.- (c) Could be made a powerful means of reforming athletics...