Word: coach
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Crane '90 is the regular coach, and is assisted at times by G. Murchie...
...conference was held here today between Manager McAver, representing the University of Pennsylvania and Manager Bishop, Coach Davis, Professor F. A. March, Jr., and Hon. H. J. Reeder, representing Lafayette. After two hours conversation, Pennsylvania was refused because it was thought that the Eastonians could not endure the strain of anymore games than those already scheduled...
...Freshman squad are unfortunate in having only one regular coach. One man, no matter how efficient, can not coach two elevens at once. It is surely the duty of the members of the eleven which is not under his eye to do their best. They member of the I900 second eleven do not do their best. They make a much weaker attempt at practice than an average school second eleven. They go through the signals in a listless, happy-go-lucky fashion, and many of them seem to regard a game with one of Harvard's greatest athletic rivals...
There appears to be in the first place a serious lack of coaching for the Freshman football team, as one man can hardly be expected to take charge of both the first and the second elevens. For this, perhaps, the class is not wholly responsible. There is, however, a lack of serious attention to business and a general carelessness shown by the second eleven which is utterly inexcusable, even though its members have no special coach to keep them up to the mark...
...University looks to 1900 to win its football games, as '98 and '99 have done before it, and if a good team is to be developed, it must be by the aid of a plucky energetic second eleven. A second coach should be secured if possible, and the class must see to it that for the rest of the season, their football prospects shall not suffer for the want of a snappy, efficient scrub team...