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...Arthur Cumnock, shortly after the eleven, which he had for the first time captained, had been defeated by Yale, was seen one day outside the Gymnasium passing a football with two or three other men. When asked what he was doing he answered, "Getting ready for next year." And next year Harvard beat Yale. On each of those two years, at the close of the football season, the undergraduates gave the eleven a football dinner. At the first dinner they met to cheer an eleven which, though beaten, had done credit to Harvard; at the second to welcome royally...
...this custom of having a football dinner be revived? As Cumnock said, we must be getting ready for next year, and there is no better way to do that than by showing in a public way and as a whole that we are proud of our team. They did not win to be sure, but every man of them did his best, and from Captain Wrightington down to the last of the substitutes, we are still proud of them. "Strike while the iron is hot" is a good maxim. Such a dinner would also afford a very good chance...
...best definition he could make was "that team play was the additional something which, entering into the thought and action of the whole team, renders it a unit." After speaking of the great difficulty a man has in keeping his thoughts with the team, he gave ex-Captain Cumnock's definition of team play, as consisting in every man's knowing how to play his position so well that he can spare some of his surplus strength to aid the man next him. The more each player can help the man next him, the stronger the team play...
Trafford, in speaking of kicking, said that kicking had been neglected in past years. Cumnock was the first to recognize the importance of kicking and the victory in '91 was largely due to this. He then gave his idea of the errors which kickers are liable to, in place and drop kicking, and in punting, and in closing said that men must teach themselves, for they are so differently built that it is hard for one man to coach another in kicking...
...with the 'varsity football squad for three years and can say that under Cumnock and Trafford there was absolutely no partiality. With regard to the crews under Perkins, Kelton and Vail, with which I was brought closely in contact, I never saw the slightest favoritism or heard any charge of it. I knew little of the nine, but Frothingham was never in his life accused of unamnliness...