Word: coaches
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Varsity again spent the whole of their time yesterday afternoon in running off the signals and perfecting the plays. Dudley Dean '91 came out and hereafter, until the Yale game, will coach the team regularly, devoting especial time to the quarterbacks...
Perhaps there is no reproach which has been more constantly cast in the teeth of Harvard men than that of favoritism in the selection of athletic teams. Newspapers are eager for sensation, unsuccessful candidates are apt to blame anything but themselves; and people seem somehow to forget that a coach's or a captain's reputation depends on his using the best men available...
Here then is a matter in which all can help. If everybody will keep quiet until he knows what he is talking about, and will call to account any unwarrantable statements made in his presence, ninetenths of this clap trap can be stopped. It is an insult to the coach, the captain, the players, and the whole University, and has been too long endured...
...Coach Forbes will resume charge of the men early next week...
Captain H. C. Ring '98, will coach the team this fall and winter. In the spring he will be aided by Mr. Hood, who captained the '85 team which won the amateur championship of America and also by Mr. Williams captain of the '84 team...