Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against Dartmouth, the single booter loss of the season, Coach MacDonald's team abandoned its game and tried to beat the Indians at their own plays. "Every year we seem to play our worst game against Dartmouth," MacDonald says. "Maybe some day we'll learn that the way to beat them is not to commit modified kinds of assault and battery on the playing field." The team now seems to accept the doctrine. One more game will tell...
...winner of this fall, the Varsity soccer team, meets the Bulldog as the odds-on favorite to win its eighth of the year against one defeat. While the football team has had its moments of glory and the cross-country team has wallowed in defeats, wee Scot James MacDonald's booters have amassed the best soccer record in decades...
...soccer as in other sports a certain amount of luck is involved. James MacDonald's team has been lucky this year, but sound play has meant more. Sound play in the MacDonald image is not what generally passes as the American type of soccer. A Scot who has coached and played professional soccer since before the First World War, MacDonald has trained his team in the methods of the continental teams...
American colleges such as Army, Princeton and Dartmouth play a football-type of game emphasizing bodily contact, speed and long boots. MacDonald decries brutish methods. "You can't win a ball game without controlling the ball," Mac says, "and booting the ball all over the field and banging into peaople doesn't help you get the ball into scoring position...
...MacDonald's method is teamwork and the short pass. His dream is to see the Crimson take the ball all the way down the field and deposit it in the goal without letting an opponent touch the spheroid. "That's the way we used to do it in the Leagues...