Word: intra
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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First of all, he must be King. Not only of major sports and their coaches, but also of minor sports, and of the class (or intra-mural sports). The theory of "getting men out" for class teams and coaching them and giving them attention and encouragement is so generally accepted that it has become a platitude. But, for all that, it is still a theory; nobody has actually induced men to come out and coached them yet. The nearest approach was in class swimming and basketball this year--successful but not successful enough. Physical benefits were derived; there was organization...
This tourney is the biggest intra-University athletic event of the year and the H. A. A. expects a large number of entries in all weights. Coach Foley who has been developing the boxing material is counting on a dozen competitors from his class and Sam Anderson who has been coaching the wrestlers expects to enter twenty men in the trials which will take place in the Randolph Gymnasium on March...
...mildness of the climate makes it possible for sports to be enjoyed all winter. Most of the athletes are so by nature rather than by training; an amusing instance was that of a country boy who insisted on running barefoot on a cinder track. Almost all the contests are intra-collegiate, but occasionally the university soccer team has an opportunity to try its ability against outside teams, and is often defeated by the crack elevens from the British warships. Baseball has usually been restricted to the American instructors, but in the last year or two the students have taken...
...preparatory schools by the alumni of various colleges. Dean H. McClenahan, of Princeton, spoke on athletic standards and approved of the faculty's controlling all athletics. Professor R. N. Corwin, of Yale, discussed college ideals and athletics and expressed the belief that athletics should be more closely associated with intra-curriculum aims...
successful in making the team this year or not, shall have this opportunity to take part in a final intra-college competition, with such handicaps that everybody who enters will have as nearly as possible an equal chance to win a place. The committee hopes that this meet, by providing an object, will tend to keep everybody out even after the team has been selected. Many of the men who do not make the team this year are the ones who must be relied on to represent the University later, and the experience and training they will get by keeping...