Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With this afternoon's struggle Coach Robert T. Fisher '12 will bring to an end his third successful year as Head Coach of University football. During the seasons that he has wielded supreme power in the Stadium, his gridiron men have played 27 games, of which 22 have been victories, three ties and only two defeats. Under his mentorship, Yale has been defeated twice, 10-3 and 9-0, while Princeton has tied the Crimson twice and defeated them once...
...great familiarity with the game that Coach Fisher owes his success in football coaching. Graduating from Andover in 1908, he had already played several years on the school team before he came to Harvard in the following fall. In college his success was immediate. He gained a place as guard on the Freshman team and starred in every contest of the season...
...University team, performing so creditably that he immediately landed one of the regular guard berths, his work proving so excellent that at the end of the season Walter Camp gave him a guard position on his mythical "All-American" eleven. During his remaining two years, Coach Fisher retained this same position, gaining both times the highly coveted "All-American" rating, and in his last year, 1911, captaining the team that fought the Elis...
...development of the University team, coach Fisher has been working under the most adverse conditions existing in many years. The material available at the beginning of the fall was very inexperienced and physically far below standard. Added to these difficulties were injuries, which have occurred at an almost unprecedented rate. In addition to 3 men lost to the team entirely through injuries, 13 other men have been incapacitated for periods of more than two weeks, and of these 9 are first string players. How much of a loss this has been to Coach Fisher is self evident. These facts...
...Dempsey '23 of Boston, captain. Dempecy takes the place of C. F. Peters '22, who has been advanced to the first squad. He is the third captain elected by the second team this year; the other two, F. H. Hovay '22 and C. F. Peters now being on Coach Fisher's squad...