Word: coacher
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...discipline in their work and right here is the basis of the other faults. The men seem to feel that it makes no difference how they play so long as they do not actually stand still; attention, and above all implicit obedience to the words of the coachers seem to be almost entirely lacking. The men refuse to play where they are told and there is a great deal of unnecessary explanation and parleying. The freshmen should learn as soon as possible that a coacher is not put in charge of a team for his own amusement...
...confined to the field work. There is the same irregularity of attendance which seems to dominate all the class football work this fall. One day twenty-five men will appear, and the next day only ten may be on hand. This is more dispiriting to a captain and a coacher than actual misplay when the men are out, for poor material is one step better than no material at all. It is marvellous with what equanimity a freshman team will persist in its childishness when all the football men in college are talking about it and frowning...
...Coacher Ferry says that Wesleyan will have the heaviest batting team this year they have ever...
...which made the trouble is perfectly sustained by the league rules, and was made with reference to Steere who made a three-bagger at the beginning of the eighth inning. As he ran bases, he failed apparently to touch second, but in the excitement Sexton ran up to the coacher's line thereby becoming a second coach, and then started across the diamond to make Steere go back to second. For this interference, Cobb promptly called the base-runner out, according to league rules. At this decision Brown went off the field, leaving Harvard winners, with the runs...