Word: errors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such a way as to capitalize weakness indicated by the defensive team whereby the defensive team was individually or collectively out of position. Percy Haughton was one of the first to recognize this fact and for years remained in advance of other coaches by planning plays to utilize any error in the opponents' defense. Other coaches gradually appreciated and duplicated his methods. This very naturally resulted in various coaches so planning and teaching defense that these weaknesses ceased to exist, and they even went so far as to have defensive players deliberately make it apparent that they were...
...chief significance of this triple agreement is not however the proposals themselves, it is the spirit manifest behind them. Particular points in the program will soon be proved or found wanting by the simple process of trial and error. All three schools are in the first rank. Norman Batchelder, Principal of Loomis, is a former Harvard athlete, and Arthur F. Howe of Taft a former Yale star. Their influence is likely to prove decisive in the history of school athletics. They have, further-inore, set the pace for the colleges. Signs are not wanting that such agreements will be multiplied...
...editorial. Because of this and because you had full permission to reprint the manuscript in full subsequent to its publication in Liberty, it would seem that you, and not I, are responsible for the purveying of "that insidious half truth which can make more trouble than all the error possible for any popular periodical to gather in a year." (I quote directly one of your editorial assertions...
...poor expositor, he was a great night-thinker, losing much sleep longing to correct possible false impressions. Huxley described "a marvelous dumb sagacity about him ... he gets to truth by ways as dark as those of the Heathen Chinee." Eternally openminded, he was frank before criticism, glad to acknowledge error, seldom condemned another's views by any word stronger than...
...back. It is only fair that I tell a waiting world that Harvard is going to beat Yale, beat her thoroughly and decisively. With that statement goes the whole reputation of Joe Forecast and as you all know that is no small thing. For never have I made an error in prognosticating a Harvard game...