Word: jim
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...report from Princeton says that "Jim" Robinson, our old trainer, would not be allowed under the new regulations an appointment there as an athletic instructor...
...slightest consequence to them, when a few days ago, they took measures to stop the game with Yale on Thanksgiving day. This is an exact parallel case to what happened about a year ago. In the spring of '82 the Athletic Association entered into an agreement with Jim Robinson. The faculty did nothing about it at the time; but after the summer vacation, during which Mr. Robinson received several offers, the members of the faculty took it into their heads that they did not want us to have a professional trainer, and obliged the Athletic Association to break its agreement...
...with the Princeton faculty, and only a day before our game was congratulated by some of them on his successful treatment, and was pressed to accept an engagement for another year. It is believed we could yet secure his services if our faculty would only overcome their prejudices, for "Jim" has not yet lost his well known devotion to Harvard...
About forty men are trying for the foot-ball team at Princeton. Jim Robinson is training the team, and is very sanguine in his hopes...
Princeton has twenty men now training under the care of Jim Robinson daily, from which number they will probably have seven men for the inter-collegiate games, besides the tug-of-war-team...