Word: expert
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Yale been able to score even one touchdown, Harvard's--or rather Brickley's--victory would have left a sour taste in Harvard mouths. But Yale tried to play the same game; she matched the skill of her individual expert against the skill of the Harvard past master, and lost fairly and squarely in what was a dual rather than a battle of twenty-two warriors."--Cleveland Plan Dealer
...forward passes and its other vagaries o new football, places a premium on individual excellence and minimizes the value of team-work. In acquiring points team effort is no longer required. Once with in striking distance of the goal the team does not strike. Instead, it calls upon its expert kicker and useless effort is avoided. Ten husky warriors stand aside and permit one man, who possesses a peculiarly skillful foot to do the work that eleven men would have done in the old days...
...conceivable that, even in the absence of legislation by Congress, any future administration will presume to oppose the unequivocal sentiment of the business men of the country by giving the service over once more to the spoils system ousting those officials who by long and careful training posses the expert qualifications necessary to fulfil the difficult requirements of the work, and thus destroy the permanency of the career...
...will arrange all details so that men may be sure of someone starting daily. Arrangements have also been made to form a number of hockey teams which shall play for the club championship. If enough men show their interest there will be two leagues, one for expert and one for less expert players...
...will arrange all details so that men may be sure of someone starting daily. Arrangements have also been made to from a number of hockey teams which shall play for the club championship. If enough men show their interest there will be two leagues, one for expert and one for less expert players...