Word: post
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ticknor still continues at the Team B tackle post where he was shifted Monday. With Davis absent, Kuehn filled in as right tackle on Team A, while Talbot again had the right guard assignment. It is as yet a question just who will get the disputed guard and tackle positions on Saturday...
...found Team A pitted against the first-year men. No account of scores was kept as the coaches halted play frequently to give individual instruction. The assignment work on the offensive is still dissatisfying, although some improvement over the showing against Bates has been made. Wood at the quarterback post in place of Putnam who was absent because of a late class, was given every opportunity to direct the team under various conditions. All plays received a good test against the Freshman line, which, incidentally, looked exceedingly good...
...Glee Club also announces that it is starting a managerial competition for Sophomores. Candidates are to report at 7 o'clock this morning in the Music Building. The importance of the managerial post cannot be over-emphasized, for the entire business end of the Glee Club, which is decidedly a business concern, is in charge of the manager. The winner of the competition starting tonight will become assistant manager directly upon the close of the competition...
That college football has developed from a form of organized, spirited roughhouse to a vast national business is a fact that has long been obvious but seldom analyzed. Last week a journalist named Francis Wallace published some figures in The Saturday Evening Post. He showed that football's drawing power is about $50,000,000 a year, that some colleges make half a million out of their teams because they "get raw material, exploitation, and labor at slight cost. The schedule makers are planning five years ahead, signing contracts for attractive intersectional games, based no longer on natural rivalry...
...trouble will be experienced in filling the quarterback post this season with Putnam and Wood on the squad. Both of these are good tacticians and their all round ability will prove useful. The former's running is good and he has lost none of his dropkicking ability. Wood, too, is a capable dropkicker...