Word: idea
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...idea that college social service work is a theoretical dabbling in the social problems of a big city, and that it is simply "slumming", which has come to be synonymous with vulgar curiosity and condescending meddling, is wrong, as the men who did work of this sort last year will testify. There are man-sized jobs waiting for men to take them, in this field. Social service as conducted by Phillips Brooks House is not play, but earnest work, replete with opportunities for tact and executive ability, and full of real problems...
...first place the idea exists among undergraduates that secret practice means literally practice conducted in absolute secrecy, with the intention of preventing any new plays from being carried away by the spectators and reaching the ears of our adversaries. This is further strengthened by the strange truth that on each Saturday the undergraduate sees but little change in the team's style of playing, with but few new or startling plays in its method of attack. Secret practice is not conducted primarily to keep secret the team's development. It claims a far more worthy aim; that of permitting...
Yale Credited With New Idea...
...Yale, I think, that first conceived the idea of punting when punting was not to be expected. The original idea was not merely to avoid waste, but to disconcert the enemy. Under the old rules, and fitted with a running team of great power, Yale did not resort to kicking except on the last down. But since Yale used to pursue the policy of building the defence first, it became necessary to lay especial stress on the kicking game. It was natural that the Elis, accustomed to using the kicking game throughout the early season, should be the first...
...idea was to "boot the ball at the other fellow" from close under the line, and from a formation that might mean a run as well as a kick. Harlan of Princeton, Mitchell of Yale, Wyckoff of Cornell, and Carl Williams of Pennsylvania, were experts at this...