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...initial importance that we should obtain a clear idea of what the method of amateur coaching employed here at Cambridge involves in actual practice. In the first place the coaching system is by no means uniform throughout the various sports; nor in fact is it even entirely amateur, the varsity cricket teams being under the tutelage of professionals. In the second place it is essential to distinguish sharply between the university and the college teams. There is little more connection between them here than there is between university and class teams at Harvard, and the coaching to which they...
...most prominent examples, which would generally, I think, be more closely associated in our minds with a professional than with an amateur regime. The purely amateur, or to be more accurate, self-coaching stage of such sports as varsity rowing and rugby comes early in the season. Throughout the first term in rowing and until the middle of November in rugby the undergraduate officers of the respective groups take charge of the entire work of training their men. And even after the end of their term as instructors the various captains retain an important voice in the selection...
Within the English colleges as distinct from the universities, the coaching is done largely by undergraduates. There are certain exceptions: in rowing, for instance, a former Blue often guides the first boat through the final stages of its preparation for the inter-college races, and the dons occasionally lend a hand in coaching this or that athletic group. But in the selection and management of all college teams the captain's authority is final, and the bulk of the coaching is done by the more experienced men under the direction of the captain. I have heard participants in several sports...
...Ticknor, Harvard's first real candidate for an All-America berth since the days of Charlie Hubbard. The East's finest center, a tower of strength in the middle of the Harvard line, and a scrappy defense man who is in on every play, and a steadying influence to a somewhat doubtful and shaky line...
...Devens, plunging and crashing back, who was the first of the Sophomore backs to win a permanent place in the Crimson lineup. It was he who scored the touchdown against a Booth-captained Yale Freshman eleven last year; he also pitched the 1932 baseball team to a win over Yale last Spring, fanning 13 Blue batters...