Word: coaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frank Vaughan, inter-House swimming coach, said that this year he noticed stiffer competition for the house teams. Several of the Houses sport some very good mermen. The Eliot team has several Jayvees who eventually hope to make the Varsity. At the meet between the Elephants and the Deacons, Colles C. Stowell '39 paced a new inter-House backstroke record...
...that encounter Hodder began the wise policy of beating out a faster team by playing a close-checking game and capitalizing on breaks for offensive sallies. But tactics alone cannot explain the Varsity's tendency to blow very hot one night and very cold the next. As Coach Hodder explains it, it is largely due to the team's inexperience...
...defense, badly weakened by the graduation of stars from last year's team, has been another big worry, although Win Jameson, converted forward, Bill Coleman, Carstein, and Perkins showed a lot of improvement in last week's games. Vint Freedley, Coach Hodder's choice in goal after nearly a month of alternating him with Johnson and Mittell, has shown very definitely that he warranted...
...seems ridiculous to adopt the attitude that a man must wrestle badly and beneath his abilities to insure team victory. But that is exactly the position adopted by wrestling coaches, especially throughout New England. For the past several years, one of our fore-most rivals in the sport has each year followed this policy of submerging a man for the sake of a few points. Such a situation is much different from that of a football team, for instance, where one man does the dirty work of blocking and tackling to the exclusion of any spectacular ball-carrying...
Fablan tactics are often useful in war, but intercollegiate wrestling is not war; it is a sport where each man should be allowed to do his best to beat his opponent. A coach is employed to teach a man how to wrestle, and when he deliberately orders a man to forget all he knows about wrestling and go on the mat and play tag, that coach should be asked to resign. Any coach realizes that great wrestlers cannot be developed by men who have been taught to stall. In the wrestling game, more than any other sport, perhaps, the greatest...