Word: parte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leaves but of the English coaching book. If, for instance, we at Harvard are to have any outside assistance for our teams at all--and English practice affords the advocate of purely undergraduate coaching small encouragement--we may as well have it for the whole as for part of the season. And as to giving the captain a larger or even, as in some sports here, the sole voice in picking the team, English students themselves generally admit that the evils of the custom definitely outweigh the advantages...
...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 as far as the college branches of their sports are concerned. The interesting fact, though, is not that they admitted the organization of these sports to be loose, but that they complained...
...attack of the Yale team will be based on power for the most part with but little stress on deception and passing. This is expected to be in sharp contrast to the Harvard attack which, it is thought, will be based on aerial thrusts by the crafty Barry Wood, Crimson quarterback...
...Mays, slippery and elusive Sophomore back whose broken field running has been a feature of the Harvard offense in the latter part of the season. He scored the opening touchdowns for the Crimson against both Florida and Holy Cross and gained the favor of a Mid-Western crowd by his performance against the Wolverines...
...song cue and introduce, with no apologies at all, tenors, sopranos and dancing choruses. The screen fans, however, insist that the story provide some excuse for the introduction that is inherent in the narrative. Naturally backstage stories, where sections of a musical comedy can be realistically shown as part of the atmosphere, supply the most likely field for what the paying guests demand...