Word: coaching
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...present high position in public favor. We refer to the practice of Yale graduates, who have been drilled as members of our foot-ball team and thus trained in what are conceded to be the best tactics and manoeuvers of the game, going to other colleges and universities and coaching their teams, in most cases for salaries. In this way the game is made more than ever a matter of money, and Yale graduates become foot-ball professionals. We do not mean to say that the game should be restricted, but that other teams should gain their knowledge through contests...
...position of the coach of the freshman crew is a most difficult one. He has a number of men most of whom have never before rowed in a shell, to whom he is expected to teach rowing, beginning with the very rudiments. After the freshman year the work of developing the crew is not so difficult. There are some men in the class who know how to row and the question is to develop good men for the positions, or perhaps to select the few who may be necessary to fill any vacant places from a small number of promising...
...been said, the task of the coach is no easy one. The college is looking to the freshmen for a winning crew, and every member of the class should do all in his power to see that the college is not disappointed. Just now the call is for all the freshmen who have been playing football. The men themselves should see that it is promptly answered...
McClung will coach the Berkeley eleven for the annual game with Leland Stanford University, which takes place in two weeks...
...Andover, eleven occupied a coach at the Freshman game Saturday...