Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Graydon '03 have assisted in coaching the backs, but have been unable to be present regularly. Head Coach J. Crane '90 was substitute on the University team when in College, and has always been actively engaged in athletics. Last year he was in charge of the drop kickers with Coach Reid and hence is thoroughly acquainted with the latter's system of coaching. Furthermore, he has the entire confidence of every member of the squad...
...HAVEN, CONN., September 26, 1907.--The second scrimmage of the year for the Yale football squad took place this afternoon in a keenly contested battle between the first and second teams. Wheaton for the university team made a successful attempt at a drop kick, thereby scoring the only goal. Corey excelled in punting, his kicks averaging from 45 to 50 yards. Previous to the scrimmage Coach Knox and his assistants put the whole squad through a severe drill, and ran three of the teams through a lively fifteen-minutes signal practice...
...past was, as they stated, superficial, we nevertheless thank them sincerely for the sentiments expressed. After commenting on the large number of class smokers and dinners, Senior buttons and dormitories, the News suggests that the time has come when "in justice to Harvard" Yale men should drop the inherited prejudices which have existed and should recognize that after all both universities have more or less the same social ideals. Although we do not admit that the Harvard atmosphere has ever been narrow or snobbish, we do think that a healthy wave of democracy and intelligent class loyalty has swept over...
...University football team for next season, subject to the approval of the Athletic Committee, which will meet next Wednesday. Last year Mr. Crane was one of the older advisers of Coach Reid and was on Soldiers Field every day, having charge of the routine work of the drop-kickers. Mr. Crane will have as his assistants several of the men who were identified with Coach Reid last fall. His advisory coach will be John W. Farley '99, coach of the University team in 1902, and Harvard's present representative on the intercollegiate football rules committee...
...participant and as a graduate manager, that all training tables should be abolished, and by the recent vote of the Athletic Committee not to support or authorize tables for minor sports.--a vote which was later reconsidered. We are certainly at a point in athletics where we must either drop them entirely or do thoroughly what we undertake. This work cannot be limited in scope to the major sports, for taken as a whole the minor and class sports are fully as important as major athletic since they actively interest an equally large number...