Word: season
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English coaching book. If, for instance, we at Harvard are to have any outside assistance for our teams at all--and English practice affords the advocate of purely undergraduate coaching small encouragement--we may as well have it for the whole as for part of the season. And as to giving the captain a larger or even, as in some sports here, the sole voice in picking the team, English students themselves generally admit that the evils of the custom definitely outweigh the advantages...
...being too loose. For I think that it may safely be said that as a rule the English student places relatively little store by efficient management and well developed organization in his sports. In rugby, for example, matches of one kind or another start almost with the season, and from then on the participants are far more concerned with playing the game than with learning how to play...
Yesterday afternoon, the final practice of the season was held; the men ran over a rather longer distance than they have been covering during the year, as the Van Cortlandt Park course is six miles in length instead of the acoustomed five and a half...
...performance of Albie Booth this afternoon will in all probability have a decisive influence on the final outcome of the game. If the shifty Blue Sophomore can reach the heights to which he attained in several of the season's earlier contests, the feeling in the higher New Haven circles seems to be that the Elis will emerge victorious. On the other hand if Booth is either hors de combat or not up to his best form it would not be at all surprising to see the Crimson attack sweep on to its second victory in as many years...
...Mays, slippery and elusive Sophomore back whose broken field running has been a feature of the Harvard offense in the latter part of the season. He scored the opening touchdowns for the Crimson against both Florida and Holy Cross and gained the favor of a Mid-Western crowd by his performance against the Wolverines...