Word: developer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theory football is good for the players, for the general body of undergraduates, and for the alumni. For the players, football serves to build character, to inspire personal courage, and to develop true sportsmanship; but present overemphasis tends to rob the game of all pleasure and make it a grim and serious business. For the general body of undergraduates, football is a cohesive force and represents dramatically the ideals of the college; but present overemphasis tends to give it a false importance which-distorts the students' sense of collegiate values. For alumni, football is a magnet, drawing graduates back...
...college presidents of fifty years ago foreseen that baby football would develop to so huge a monster, it is certain they would have nursed him with some alarm. Had they foreseen that a part of their educational system was to grow, and swell, and put on airs until it became bigger than the whole, they would have taken due precautions to keep the usurper in his place. But they did not see. And in consequence, college football has now reached the point where many persons worship it as the acme of college purpose, as the sole standard of the merit...
...lucky for the country that the earliest colleges to develop football were the ones that did it. For it is plain to even those who neither run nor read that though Harvard is now rather inconspicuous as a football institution, it has not stepped down from its throne as the great mother of American education...
...letter men are on the squad. Besides Captain Bradford, F. B. Hayne '26, last year's leader, H. R. Wood, '27. R. D. Harman '26, Carl Stearns '26, B. J. Goldberg '26, and F. B. Turner '26 and veterans available. In the heavyweight class, a contest is likely to develop between T. D. Howe '28, last year's Freshman captain, and S. S. Wilson '28, as Bradford is too light for that class this year and W. P. Locke '27 is ineligible...
...need, first of all, the services of a coach thoroughly up in all points of the game, and skilfull in imparting this knowledge and in developing material. Such a man, once secured, should be kept for a series of years, and, if necessary, paid a salary. Harvard's want of men to call upon to fill such a position is in marked contrast to Yale's. Those graduates who have come forward and offered their services have been thoroughly up in the position they played on the team, and could do most excellent work in coaching candidates for this particular...