Word: coached
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...football conditions at Columbia are very unsettled at present, because many of the leading players expect to be recommended for an O. T. C. in the near future; this will leave the team with a comparatively weak line. Coach Dawson found a great deal of trouble filling these vacant positions because of the scarcity of material and the lack of time in which to train the available men; nevertheless, the team successfully opened its season last Saturday by defeating the Camp Merritt team 7 to 0, and the management has already arranged for future games in which is included Amherst...
...some form of athletics. This requirement has caused the number of football candidates to increase immensely, and has given a fine start to all minor sports. Aside from football, soccer, cross-country and swimming will have the big call at Pennsylvania this year. Douglas Stewart, an old soccer coach at the University, will coach the soccer candidates. Lawson Robertson is coaching a large squad of cross-country men, for whom several races have already been scheduled. The Red and Blue football team is trying to arrange a game with one or more teams representing the "Big Three...
...government. This fact has forced the management to cancel all of the games scheduled to date, but it still hopes that a good representative team can be turned out. At present, enough men for three practice elevens have reported, and they are working hard under the instruction of Coach Gettell...
...Sprague '11, star of the University eleven in 1908 when Coach Haughton took them for the first time down to New Haven, visited Soldiers Field Saturday and gave the squad a few pointers. He had only a few hours leave to spend however. H. Dadmun '17, captain of the 1916 University eleven, secured a three hours leave from his ship, and helped Coach Donovan Monday. R. C. Guild, for several years coach of the Second Team, and Lieutenant Westmore Wilcox '17 halfback and quarter-miler, have also aided in the coaching...
Scrimmaging was started last week and every day the coaches have been giving their squads as rigorous training as the conditions permit. Coach Donovan this week merged the Junior and the Senior S. A. T. C. candidates to form one good team and for the last few days there has been scrimmaging between the Naval Unit and the S. A. T. C. squads. The forward pass has been concentrated upon and developed with very satisfactory results...