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...change has taken place in the Crimson camp. Men whose ball playing had been scarcely of the "corner lot" variety for the first two months, came back in championship form. By winning the Princeton series and shutting out Boston College, Captain McLeod's men have shown that unfavorable pre-season "dope" is no obstacle to a persevering team...
There are several changes in Princeton's football organization for the fall of 1919. W. W. Roper will coach the teams, beginning early next September. Spring practice will be abolished, and pre-season practice will be substituted. Also there will probably be no training table regularly, but only for a short time preceding games. There is one radical change in Princeton's schedule to be noted. Dartmouth, with whom Princeton's has played an annual game from 1907 to 1916. When formal athletics stopped, no longer appears on the schedule. The reason given was that too hard a schedule...
When the crew squad was first called out by Acting Captain F. Parkman '19, on March 4, only 50 upperclassmen and 45 Freshmen reported for the initial workouts on the machines. Owing to the fuel situation this pre-season practice was carried on at the Locker Building instead of the Newell Boathouse. The next week, however, saw the oarsmen in the tank at the latter place. Though various experimental shifts were made during the remainder of the season, the University eight was at that time seated as it rowed both Yale and Princeton, with one exception,--D. L. Withington...
Since the outbreak of war, 18 educational institutions have had to discontinue athletics, 22 colleges out of 26 have eliminated pre-season coaching and 23 out of 26 have cut down their training-table. The three who continued the practice reduced the cost greatly...
...revolution must be a gradual one if we are to retain athletics on any extensive scale. The National Association, however, has now publicly recognized these faults and it proposes to deal with these at its next session. It will pass resolutions favoring, first, that there be no more pre-season coaching; second, that professional coaching be reduced to the minimum; third, that then number of official and their fees at intercollegiate games be kept as low as possible...