Word: evens
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...prediction was that "no-score" games would put an end to the ten-yard rule in short order. The contrary has proven true, and already there are those who would like to see the forward pass more restricted, relying upon it as it was a year ago, or even eliminating it altogether and keeping the onside kick and ten-yard rule. What was needed in the game was primarily to lessen value of possession of the ball and this the ten-yard rule achieved. With its introduction there went out all the close hammering mass plays which were good...
...retention of our present coach as administrator and securing for field coach a member of the last team, or, as in the rowing system, a trained professional, instinctively able to pick men and get the best work out of them, will be a step towards victory over Yale. But even such a coaching machine as Yale's could not bring about our victory over a college which can put not one eleven into a game, but almost two. If we will win, we must recruit Harvard with winning material by every legitimate means; we must all make it our business...
...football coaching is so systematized that we can make the best of our resources. At present our object is to beat Yale in football, and as long as undergraduates are united upon that point, there is no need for digressions upon hypothetical instances whose accomplishment we cannot yet welcome even if they were practically possible. Let us strive to attain the end which appeals to the great majority, and let any reforms work out gradually, if the need of them is generally felt...
...largest elements in turning out teams which can win an even share at least of the largest and most important games they play, is in the coaching of these teams; and it has been proved that it is as important to develop this along consistent lines as it is to develop the team. No team can hope to win which one week plays along one line and the next along another line of play. The coaching staff of this team feels the same influences over a somewhat longer period. It must develop by experience and by close touch with conditions...
...which, though improbable, might have been made amusing. He is, however, so lacking in narrative skill that at the critical moment he does not present his leaf-clad personages vividly. Occasionally,--for example, when dwelling upon the physical peculiarities of middle age,--he comes perilously near coarseness. What is even worse, he seems to take a sophomoric delight in degenerate aspects of social life, and to look with smiling tolerance upon vices which a conscientious artist would lash with indignant satire...