Word: player
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Winthrop House, yesterday became Harvard's 73rd captain of football by vote of 34 lettermen in Dillon Field House. At the same time, Wilbur Michel Davis '50, of Brooklyn, New York and Lowell House, was voted the first Frederick Greeley Crocker memorial plaque as the team's most valuable player...
...matter which team has the ball. Coach Wilkinson thinks it is good for morale to let everybody help to score the touchdowns. In the era of super-coaching, when defensive and offensive adjustments are made up to the instant the ball is snapped, a new type of football player is in demand. The first quality Wilkinson and other topflight coaches look for, even in linemen: ability to react quickly...
Latter-day Harvard coaches who introduced new plays for the Yale game had nothing on co-mentors Stewart and Lake, who, in 1893, outfitted their charges in shiny leather suits. One of the main reasons for the suits was said to lesson the weight a player would have to carry in case of rain, but all sorts of dubious motives were ascribed to the Harvards. The opposing captains waged a bitter arguments before the game as to the legality of the suits but the officials could find nothing in the rule book against wearing them so the game went...
Gordon Brumm, Lionel player-coach, said that the Yardling champions will play a touch football team from Yale in New Haven on Saturday morning, though the Eli freshmen do not have an organized league...
When the receiving line was closed, the Conants joined their guests in the ballroom, Mrs. Conant taking one end of the barren room, Mr. Conant the other. Along about this time a piano-player had been found, and a thundering chorus of "Some Enchanted Evening" soon filled the room...