Word: sampson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following assistant University coaches have been appointed by the Committee for the season of 1931: A. W. Sampson '09, backfield coach; W. A. Cleary '14, line coach; E. H. Bradford '26, end coach; B. H. Ticknor '31, assistant line coach; N. V. Nelson '18, backfield coach; V. P. Kennard '09, kicking coach...
Along with the appointment of Casey comes the naming of several new assistant coaches, chief among whom is Arthur Sampson, former Tufts head coach and more recently of Columbia University who has been chosen to fill the backfield coaching post left vacant by Casey. The line will be in charge of Walter Cleary '14 and B. H. Ticknor, Jr. '31 and the ends will again be coached by E. H. Bradford '26. E. L. Farrell remains as trainer and V. P. Kennard '09 returns as kicking coach...
...Sampson, who is regarded as one of the smartest men connected with football, will be the chief strategist of the staff and will probably do a major portion of the scouting. Cleary's appointment as line coach is likewise not a surprise since he was next in line for the position. The decision of R. J. Dunne not to return next year left the job open for him. Ticknor's appointment as assistant line coach and special mentor for the centers is received with considerable elation since it is felt that the presence of the Crimson's All-American center...
...Sampson wielding the jawbone of an ass couldn't have raised more ructions in the ranks of the Philistines than did "Audacious" with his recent rating and berating of Boston's crop of debs. The article published in the current number of the "Tatler", and taken up with high gleo by the Boston press" classifies some one hundred and thirty lassies in various categories and finds that very little of a complimentary nature can be said about most of them. One is inclined to say, rather meanly, that one isn't surprised...
When in 1898 Rear-Admiral William Thomas Sampson steamed from Key West for the blockade of Santiago (TIME, Sept. I), Key West was a bustling harbor, a busy naval station, a bristling fort (Ft. Taylor). Key West had been fortified since 1846, had remained Federal during the Civil War. Southernmost U. S. port, situated on a coral island 60 mi. southwest of the Florida mainland (now joined by the oversea Florida East Coast R. R.), during the Spanish War it was concentration centre for the U. S. Atlantic Fleet, embarkation point for many a Cuba-bound soldier. During the World...