Word: oneness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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 complain of haphazard organization and scanty training. One college tennis captain told me, for instance, that there is practically no coaching at all in tennis and that the selection of the team is often strongly influenced by favoritism on the part of the captain. I have also heard from cricket and soccer men that both organization and training are slack...
...however this may be, the problem of coaching the House athletic groups is going to be of great importance. And it seems to me that Harvard can profit materially by the experience of her parent university, both as to what might be imitated and what avoided. On the one hand, if the Houses develop fourth, fifth, and even more teams in various sports, as is to be hoped, a great deal of coaching can certainly be done by Seniors and Juniors. On the other, however, I more than doubt the wisdom of placing complete control of House athletics...
This should be a game in which both teams score, for both have a strong punch and in only one game, the Yale Georgia for which exceptions should be made, has one of the two gone scoreless...
...rounded, unified team, with no really outstanding stars so that its balance, and general ability, should be a deciding factor in the final result. Of course breaks may enter into the outcome. Any teach with men like Booth. Hall and McLennan is always dangerous, and it is possible that one of these men may break loose at any time...
...Wood, Sophomore quarterback, hockey and baseball star. Davis Cup Team nominee, president of his class, and honor man in his studies. Out of the 25 passes he threw in the Michigan game only one was intercepted. Today he will direct the Crimson aerial attack in its crucial test against a well-informed and well-instructed Yale defense...