Word: coaches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coach Gilmour Dobie, bloomer from Cornell, permitted himself the hitherto undreamed of liberty of stating that Cornell would win. Possibly he was indulging himself in sarcasm. Penn's hard eleven beat Cornell's softer eleven a little worse than expected...
...youth can still become president of the U. S., as many of them have, but no longer can he be captain of a team at the Ohio State University. The Athletic Board has abolished captains. Henceforth the team (in any sport) will have a field leader, appointed by the coach before the game. Campus politics so tangled themselves in the election of team captains by the team members (after the custom of most colleges) that Ohio teams were weakened. The Athletic Board decided there should be less strife & feeling in electioneering; more strife & feeling against opponents on the playing field...
Since the death of Walter Camp a traditional splash of football comment for the autumn flies no more. Walter Camp, Yale player and coach, often called "Father of American Football," picked each year an All-American eleven. These were presumed to be the best eleven players in the land and the honor of belonging to the group was limitless. The selections were printed in nearly every important journal in the land; the advertisng value of selecting the official All-American was vast. So vast was it that various publications have since attempted to usurp it. Grantland Rice, widely syndicated sports...
Collier's magazine, where each season Mr. Camp's choices were published under copyright. Various newspapers hire a coach or groups of coaches to choose an All-American. Other papers make studious summaries of every All-American selection available and triumphantly weed out the winners. But it remained for the New York Sun to make the most determined effort. This fall the Sun scattered football writers everywhere: on the Pacific, in the Middle West, Southwest, South, Missouri Valley, and throughout the East; 129 elevens were examined...
...Coach Arnold Horween is making a special trip from Chicago to attend this meeting...