Word: coached
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...system is open. For example it has been suggested that the existing arrangement fosters an undesirable spirit of professionalism, of training a few men to a very high degree that they might go through a successful season. This, as Dean Briggs implies, is the natural outcome of paying a coach for the single purpose of shaping a winning team. The day is past when athletics could be viewed by the authorities as a necessary evil. Is it not likely that closer co-operation with the officers of the University would eliminate the narrowness of the "winning team" system and offer...
...resolutions recommend an assured and dignified position for the instructor in physical training and athletics as opposed to the position of the 'seasonal coach' hired to produce a winning team. The office of athletic director is, in the opinion of the Association, an educational office, of immense influence, for which no man is too good...
...schedule, subject to the approval of the Athletic Committee includes dual meets for the 1922 team with Worcester Academy, Exeter, Andover and Yale 1922. At the Service Track Meet in the East Armory, Boston, the fifteenth of next month, in addition to the University and Freshman relay teams, Coach Donovan plans to enter individually the stars in the squad. The first race with Yale will be at the B. A. A. Indoor Meet, March 1, when Freshman and upperclass relay teams will match the Elis in races of three and six laps respectively...
...Freshman crew squad will be organized into provisional crews at the Newell Boat House at 3.45 this afternoon. About 75 first-year men have been reporting daily to Coach Haines. Thirty upperclassmen have been rowing voluntarily on the machines...
...thirty members of the University squad were given a hard work-out yesterday afternoon, under the direction of Coach R. E. Gross '19. After some preliminary, unorganized practice, combinations were tried in a long scrimmage against a team chosen from the rest of the University and Freshman candidates. H. P. King, '21, a member of last year's Freshman team, now at Camp Devens, took part in the scrimmage. However, he does not expect to get his discharge from the army in time to play hockey this year...