Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Sargent of Harvard is a strong supporter of foot-ball and considers it a better game than base-ball...
...Sargent will lecture tonight in the Union Gymnasium on "Walking as an Exercise...
Some decidedly interesting revelations are contained in the following editorial clipped from the Yale News. If Dr. Sargent is correctly represented it must be said that his conduct is to say the least disingenuous : "Dr. Sargent of Harvard has just been here. He came to try and perfect some arrangement by which all association with professionals and more especially professional trainers in all branches of college athletics could be done away with. He says that the Harvard athletic committee did not intend from the first to have the game with Yale given up, but only officially to show that they...
...Sargent, the director of the gymnasium, another member of the committee, says that warning players under the present rules is a mere farce, for the referee's attention is often distracted, sometimes purposely, by a team's umpire, and then a player may entirely disable another and be warned only once for it. Again there are so many men engaged that individuals may be warned here and there and the play of a team not affected at all. Allowing three warnings, as under the present rules, is as though in sparring three blows under the belt were allowed before disqualification...
...Sargent will lecture tonight in Union Hall, Boston, on "The Importance of Training...