Word: interring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...sports of an individual nature exceeds the number in team sports. For example, 312 different men took part in organized intramural tennis this fall. This number does not include those who played occasionally. Touch football is the closest team rival. The men who played in the organized Business School, Inter-Fraternity, Inter-Dormitory and Independent touch football leagues number 201. Intramural football is third with 173 of which 98 played class and 75 Freshman inter-dormitory football. Then follow track with 76, Freshman inter-dormitory crew with 72 and cross country with 45. Though it has been impossible to complete...
Measured by the standard expressed in the first paragraph, intramural football--including both inter-class and inter-dormitory--has been the most successful sport this fall. The nature of the game makes it possible to promote all the benefits to a high degree. For this purpose three men are assigned to coach the three class squads and four men the four Freshman dormitory squads. The results in both these branches have been very successful. One factor which is greatly responsible for this condition is the arrangement of informal contests with outside opponents. Our experience has taught us that intramural contests...
Last spring a Freshmen contest at Radcliffe with a similar inter-team arrangement met with such enthusiastic approval that University team relationships have been resumed this fall...
With but five more days for playing scheduled games remaining in the inter-fraternity touch football league, the Sigma Alpha Mu Fraternity leads in the standings with three games won and none lost. The Trident Club is in second place, having won the same number of games, but lost...