Word: coaches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rehearsals are being held in the Gore Hall common room with W. N. Rice directing the Instrumental Clubs and R. P. Ballard '24, coach of the Vocal Club. Leaders of the three divisions are yet to be picked from among the members of the respective units...
Rumors current in Boston newspapers yesterday to the effect that E. L. Casey '19 would become University backfield coach next fall and that C. J. Hubbard Jr. '24 would be transferred from his position as coach of the tackles to that of line coach received no definite confirmation last night from W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics. According to Mr. Bingham, the choice and appointment of the football coaching staff lies entirely with Coach Arnold Horween '21, and final substantiation of any report must await his arrival in Boston about the middle of next month...
...Bingham stated that in view of the fact that Horween's contract holds for only a year and that the possibility of its extension is extremely doubtful, the athletic authorities have deemed it wise to place on the 1929 coaching staff those men who are outstanding candidates to succeed to the post of head coach. Casey's record with the Freshman squad has brought him more and more into the running for this berth, he said...
Hubbard, who is also being considered for this post, is expected to take the place next fall of R. J. Dunne,, head line coach during the first three years of the Horween regime. Dunne has not as yet communicated his plans to the Harvard authorities, but there is reason to believe that he has accepted an offer of Wisconsin University to undertake coaching duties there...
...Bingham has sufficiently demonstrated his confidence in Coach Arnold Horween to make it clear that he will hardly interfere in such an important matter as the choice of the latter's assistants next season. He now emphatically states that, in the last analysis, the selection of line, backfield, and other coaches will be left as usual to the judgement of the head coach...