Word: coaching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Sargent is writing the report of the Athletic Committee which is to be delivered to the faculty at their meeting to morrow afternoon. It will cover the whole of the year 1885, and will especially discuss the matter of the employment of a coach by the crew and the foot-ball question. It is expected that the faculty will then decide whether inter-collegiate foot-ball will be allowed next fall...
...optional with them. The opening of the new building has awakened great enthusiasm in all branches of sport. All the foot-ball men and many others have begun active training for the boat crews. There are nearly fifty candidates in all. Ellis Ward is already at work as coach and trainer, and appearances at present point to an unusually strong crew for Pennsylvania next year. - Yale News...
...Cook has recovered so far from his late injuries that he has resumed his position as coach of the Yale crews...
...Cook, the famous Yale coach, yesterday had an altercation with a negro employe in Philadelphia, and was struck by the latter in the forehead with a hatchet. Mr. Cook was removed to the hospital where his skull was found to be badly fractured; the doctors say he has not one chance in a thousand to live...
...think it nonsense for Yale and Harvard to form an agreement against the employment of a professional coach. There is no question about the benefit a crew so coached will receive, and although I would not promise to coach them to victory, I certainly would promise them a great deal of improvement. There is now no question that the Harvard crew of 1885 was largely carried to victory by the advantages received from the coaching of Mr. Faulkner...