Word: coaches
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...night the University relay team, one of the strongest that ever represented Harvard, met defeat at the hands of a Yale team, simply because the fact was blindly ignored that a good runner out of condition is not so efficient as a less able one who is physically fit. Coach Lothrop was directly responsible for an error in judgment, Captain Dodge indirectly so, because he was not on hand to oversee the team. The material was there, but the foresight and headwork were lacking. In this respect Yale was superior, and we do not wish to belittle her victory...
...Yale Alumni Weekly, in discussing this move of the Yale management, says: "It has been felt here for some time that the best results were not being reached through professional coaching a plan which was tried three years ago in the belief that a training in the technic of the game was the thing wanted. There was an immediate improvement in the liner points of the game, but * * * there came about unconsciously a shifting of responsibility from the captain, where Yale tradition says it shall belong, to the coach, which in crucial times was disastrous...
Looking at the matter from a Harvard point at view, we confess to a sincere hope that no such considerations will lead to change in our present coaching system. It must be admitted that the professional system has its disadvantages but so has the graduate, and we should oppose any changes that would lay us open to further adverse criticism for following a vacillating polley in our athletics. Last year Coach Pieper and Captain Dexter found no difficulty with conflict of responsibility. The system proved satisfactory: so let us stand...
When the actual playing begins, Harvard will start with a more experienced string of players than ever before. The expectations of the University are high, for we have all confidence in Captain Leonard, Coach Pieper and the team...
...accordance with the announcement recently made by T. A. D. Jones, 1908, captain of the Yale baseball team, to the effect that a return will be made this year to the system of graduate coaching, two Yale graduates have been appointed to take charge of the team. They are Carter, the well-known pitcher, and G. Case, who captained a Yale nine in the early 90s. Mr. Camp will act as advisory coach to the team. The plan is to approach as nearly as possible to the Yale coaching system as applied to football, and constitutes a reversion from...