Word: coaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...having decided that Reed football was becoming too dangerous, Mr. Keezer blew in $300 for shoulder pads, pants, etc. For the fun of it, two young facultymen-Biology Teacher William ("Bill") McElroy, lately a varsity end at Stanford, and Alfred ("Fritz") Hubbard, onetime Carnegie Fellow at Princeton-offered to coach. Result was an unusually big turnout for the team: 30 (including two Japanese) of Reed's 546 students. Except on rainy days (when less than a full team showed up), they practiced about an hour and a half a day. Because of lack of time, Coaches McElroy & Hub-bard...
...week from today the varsity hockey team squares off with St. Nicholas in the season's opener, and Coach Clark Hodder faces a difficult rebuilding task in order to present a smooth working unit by that time...
Last year's Yardling squad was below average, and as a result Coach Hodder will have to rely on inexperienced upperclassmen this season. General skating ability, however, is good, and the team has distinct possibilities for the future. A rink available for daily practice will pay dividends in developing hockey players...
Kirk Hershey and Harlan Gustafson form as dangerous and versatile a pair of flankmen as any coach would care to have. Both men displayed an uncanny knack for pulling down forward passes, and this ability more than anything else earns them the nod over such operatives as Howie Stanley of Princeton and Brownie Brinkley of Yale...
High-grade backfield men were numerous all over the circuit, but this year top mention belongs to Cornell's superb blocking quarterback, pathfinder Walt Matuszezak. He was the heart of Coach Snavely's attack, the answer to any coach's prayer. There were brilliant running backs to run through the gaping holes he manufactured in enemy lines, and chief among them was Whit Baker...