Word: coach
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Showalter, the chess champino, will coach the Yale chess team in preparation for the intercollegiate chess tournament to be held during the Christmas holidays...
...With the graduation of Wharton and Woodruff, whose unusual strength had contributed much to the effectiveness of the "guard's back" play, besides adding greatly to the defensive strength of the centre, it was generally expected that Penn's chances for a successful football season would be small indeed. Coach Woodruff, appreciating the necessity of developing material to fill these positions, was most fortunate in securing Hare and McCracken, whose natural strength and previous experience-Hare at St. Mark's School, and McCracken as a last year's substitute-together with constant and careful coaching, has resulted in producing...
...That Coach Woodruff could produce from such new and apparently untried material such a team as now represents Pennsylvania is but another tribute to his ability as a coach and to the principles to which he has adhered in his treatment of the players-hard work all the time all the season, with a slight let up just before the final big games to allow the men to recover from their injuries and bruises...
PHILADELPHIA, PA., Nov. 15, 1897.- The practice of the U. of P. eleven today was secret and lasted an hour and a half. Before the practice Coach Woodruff gave the men his impressions on the Harvard-Yale game Saturday, and what he judged they might expect from Harvard's play...
Altogether, with graduates and undergraduates deeply interested in the crew, with a popular and efficient captain; a large number of experienced men, and the same old coach, the prospect for a good crew for '98 is very bright...