Word: coaches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...extreme measures of the reformers and their more extreme views which is rapidly spreading among the general and the college public. "College athletic organizations if left to themselves," says Mr. Camp, "would soon work out their own salvation in these matters by learning by experience that a college coach is preferable to a professional, and the knowledge thus acquired is far more lasting and convincing than faculty decrees, rules or regulations." "As all colleges are not likely to agree as to the wisdom of these resolutions," he continues concerning the three-mile rule, "this one looks like an attempt against...
Captain Bob Cook, who undertook to coach the Yale crew this winter and spring, finds that he will be unable to devote the necessary amount of time to the work. Hull, the captain of last year's crew, has been persuaded to complete the task. Mr. Hull was the great exponent of the "yank," which proved so disastrous the last two years, and he has had to receive considerable instruction himself in the English stroke of Captain Cook. For this purpose he recently spent a fortnight in Philadelphia under the coaching of Mr. Cook and Mr. Wood, who performed...
...common agreement. Assuming that the word is here used roughly to de note any one who is not undergraduate, but who rows or plays ball as a matter of business, it seems rather hard that a college nine or crew should not have a right to get themselves coached by such a man. The objection mentioned in the resolution is that the crew or nine with a professional coach would have an advantage over crews and nines having no coach; that, therefore, professionals would be employed, if at all, university, and that this would tend to assimilate the "tone...
...classes, would then fairly and impartially choose the proper men, uninfluenced by personal feeling and with an experience only gained by a majority, while in this case all discontent among the disappointed candidates would cease. The various crews have some slight advantage in the benefit of their coach's advice, a man who necessarily knows what men are, physically and intellectually, capable for the position, but this unfortunately is not so regarding the nines and elevens...
Colby University of Waterville, Me., will have a professional coach this year for their ball nine...