Word: coaching
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale Alumni of Boston held their annual dinner last night at the Parker House. R. J. Cook, the rowing coach, was present and spoke...
...meeting of the board of directors of the Athletic Association of the University of Pennsylvania held Tuesday, George W. Woodruff was re-engaged as head football coach for next fall...
Glenn S. Warner of Buffalo will coach the Cornell football team for the season of 1897. Warner is a graduate of the Cornell College of Law and was captain of the '94 eleven...
...college rivals should, at the same time, act upon similar suggestions. Yet if all colleges could be induced to look upon athletics with more of the English university spirit of "sport for sport's sake," guided by which training is much less strict and severe and the coach and members of one university crew watch the daily practice of another without the least thought of unfairness, then we believe all would be satisfied with the change. Yet this condition is about what the President's Report suggests as desirable in Harvard athletics...
There is one suggestion in the report, however, that all should favor. That is "the subordination of coaches to an expert in training or to a medical advisor." Mr. Lathrop should be officially appointed trainer for the athletic teams, particularly the eleven, with full and final powers to regulate the length and character of daily practice and all matters relating purely to the physical welfare of the men training. There would need to be no conflict between the coach and trainer. Each would have his own duties distinct from those of the other...