Word: development
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...brightest hopes, was appropriately christened with a Harvard victory. On Saturday, Harvard a second time faces Yale on the same field. Four successive victories have inspired an unshakable confidence in the ability of the Harvard team to win, and there only remains the danger that this feeling will develop into one of overconfidence, which is the first and longest step on the road to defeat. An overconfident cheering section is the worst enemy of its own team. Harvard is determined to win, but it must be a victory obtained on her own merits and not because of any fancied inferiority...
Harvard had a positive scoring punch, though the team's play on the defensive and, for that matter, on the offensive, was somewhat ragged and unfinished. Princeton lacked the scoring power which she has been promising to develop these many years. A first class defence and a good kicking game have been Princeton's chief assets ever since football was modernized. But to win consistently something more than these assets is required...
...coaches, especially as the season ahead of them was longer than usual and began as early as September 23. The candidates from the 1919 Freshman team, however, were promising, and the coaches immediately saw the possibility of making some of them into University material. They apparently did not develop as well as expected, however, for Casey is the only Sophomore who may be said to hold down a regular position on the team...
What is the remedy? Instead of spending a year or two in continental countries acquiring culture men should go abroad and spend the same period of time engaged in the foreign trade of the United States, for the foreign trade of this country is as certain to develop after the end of the present war as the present...
...fundamentals of the scholastic code. If high proficiency on the athletic field is not a corollary of excellence in the class room it may at least be regarded as a related analogy. That Yale--or any other university-- could from her own resources, "graduate and undergraduate,' develop a purely amateur coaching system capable of developing teams qualified to compete with teams of other universities developed under the professional system is a practical impossibility...