Word: coaching
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Yale committee which was appointed in December to select a football coach has recommended T. A. D. Jones, Yale 1908, to the Athletic Committee for appointment. A special meeting of the Athletic Committee will probably be held on Wednesday to discuss the matter. The recommending committee was composed of V. C. McCormick, Yale 1893, S. B. Thorne, Yale 1896, and J. R. Kilpatrick, Yale 1911. Jones was a star football player while in college, and was also captain of the baseball team. He has been head coach at Phillips-Exeter Academy for the last three years, and has had unusual...
...committee has also recommended Michael Sweeney, former champion broad-jumper of the world, and later athletic coach at Hill School, Pottstown, Pa., as football and track athletic counsellor...
...movement to popularize track athletics at Cornell and to encourage an even larger number of men to come out for the exercise, even if they fail to make the team, has been launched by the Cornell Track Association, with the approval and support of Coach John F. Moakley and faculty members on the Athletic Council. A series of weekly social gatherings for all students interested in outdoor exercise has been arranged. Last year Cornell had four hundred men out for track athletics, and it is expected that fully five hundred men will be enrolled this fall. Only a fraction...
...University fencing team will meet the University of Pennsylvania in the second match of the season at Philadelphia tonight at 8 o'clock. The team, consisting of Captain W. H. Russell '18, Manager B. S. Nichols '16, and E. P. Hamilton '18, accompanied by Coach Leslabay, left Boston late last night and will arrive in Philadelphia this morning...
...University hockey team had a long workout in passing and shooting in practice at the Arena yesterday afternoon. There was no scrimmage, but Coach Winsor worked the squad hard for an hour in stick-handling and team-work. There has been a slump in these departments of the game since the contest with Princeton last Saturday, and the weakness in shooting has been especially noticeable in the practice scrimmages during the first part of the week. Time and again the forwards have lost chances to score by not getting their shots off with any degree of speed or accuracy. This...