Word: prepped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...change towards making the competitions easier is not in itself good. It is not good either for the "prestige" given managers or for the "unknown" student who has not a score of prep school friends to help him along. It is not, then, for those who are conducting competitions to make them easier but to make them more intensive. As the athletes have a certain number of hours to prove their worth so should the manager candidates have a certain set time in which to prove their ability. Hours of midnight work, senseless typing of statistics, should all be left...
...from the principal eastern schools. Tabulated Statistics Yale. Princeton. Harvard. Andover, 60 13 26 Exeter, 38 17 33 St. Paul's, 16 14 19 Hotchkiss, 38 11 0 Mercersburg, 11 11 0 Hill, 21 25 4 Lawrenceville, 9 35 0 Taft, 25 0 0 Roxbury, 19 0 0 Princeton Prep., 0 15 0 Newark, 0 13 0 Haverford, 2 12 0 Milton, 0 0 30 Country Day, 0 0 15 Groton, 3 0 14 St. Mark's, 1 0 14 Middlesex, 0 0 13 St. George's, 1 0 10 Morristown...
Dean is represented by a powerful team this year, and they have lost none of their prep school games thus far, succumbing to the Boston Y. M. C. A. quintet, however. It is reported that the men are heavy and fast and their teamwork is good on both the defense and offense. Jenkins, the left forward of the visitors, has been their high scorer, but he is closely followed by Preo and O'Connell, forward and center respectively...
...very many years ago, there was a familiar expression among those interested in sports at Harvard University that we should have a championship football team until more "prep school stars" headed Cambridge way. In one year, however, a Harvard football coach started to turn out winning teams, and the consensus of opinion now among the same following is that the football success is based on a system emphasizing the fundamentals of the game...
...Intercollegiate Track Meet since 1909. We hear the same old story about track which we used to hear about football, yet in the 90's Harvard had Intercollegiate championship teams, and so far as I have been able to learn, we did not then get any number of "prep school stars...