Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Well so long fellows; don't forget to let me know if you need anything...
...know the varsity cricket teams are the only ones in Cambridge that have out-and-out professional coaching (though it must be remembered that in cricket as in other sports the captain performs many of the functions of the American coach). But there are several features of the coaching of both varsity crew and varsity rugby teams, to take the most prominent examples, which would generally, I think, be more closely associated in our minds with a professional than with an amateur regime. The purely amateur, or to be more accurate, self-coaching stage of such sports as varsity rowing...
...developed system of coaching exists. The best oars in the college boat club divide up the various crews among them and each carries, insofar as is possible, the same boat through the particular training period in question. On the whole the system works very well. The veteran oarsmen usually know the fundamentals of rowing, as traditionally taught in their college, pretty thoroughly and attain a large measure of success in imparting them to their charges. I should even venture to say that a fourth college crew here fares rather better under the full time guidance of a veteran third year...
...last appearance of the current football season and of course I am anxious to let you all have the full benefit of my prognosticating powers. As a matter of fact Mrs. Huey has staked my fortune on the outcome of my predictions today. Maybe you didn't know there was a Mrs. Huey; well strictly speaking you are right; really it is the Misses Huey, which is only an old Chinese way of saying that I like variety. But then I wouldn't expect my new countrymen to catch on to oriental customs yet so I will leave a detailed...
...matter of fact I might say that after my national success of last week on a bunch of games which almost any palooka who wasn't a sports writer could have predicted, I stand in a rather precarious position: It's not that I don't know what will happen; it's simply that I hate to dish old friends like Arnie Horween and Mal Stevens. Now these--two boys seem to think that if I would keep quiet they could decide it between themselves. I am willing to humor them to a certain extent: I even arranged to referee...