Word: coaches
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Furthermore we do challenge the proposition on its intrinsic merits. In a recent letter to the CRIMSON Coach Yost of Michigan said in part: "After two years of restricted athletics, the Board in Control at Michigan voted to withdraw from the Western Conference" because "the live games restriction placed on Michigan easily reduced the playing strength of her team 50 per cent. It lessened the interest of the athletes." When the interest of the athletics is lessened what is to become of intercollegiate athletics, which, outside of study, are the one common possession and aim of the undergraduate body...
...demonstration of a baseball pitching machine was held in the Cage yesterday afternoon before Coach Pieper and several members of the baseball squad...
...perfectly well and did not trouble him in the race; he himself felt in good condition and the other men on the team thought that he should run. Not only did these facts justify him in believing that he could do his fair share, but they also show that Coach Lathrop, whose long experience in handling track men entitles his judgment to great weight, and Captain Dodge are not accountable for "bad management." An accident like the one in the race cannot be reasonably foreseen; long experience by runner and trainer cannot avoid such an occurrence. The strongest team...
However, in spite of that one deplorable blunder, it must be remembered that the track team has always been one of the most successful branches of athletics at Harvard, and that there are few if any coaches that Harvard has ever had who in any branch of sport have turned out as many teams victorious against Yale as has Coach Lathrop...
...defend the unfortunate lack of judgment in question, I do want to appeal to the student body to take a fair view of the track team management as a whole,-to consider the wonderful development of new material that has rewarded the efforts of Captain Dodge, Coach Lathrop and Coach Quinn, during this winter, and to point out how much has been already accomplished towards winning the nine-year cup from Yale this spring...