Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Nature's By the present system of college athletics these requisites are met, if not perfectly, at least as well as it is possible for them to be met. They furnish a mental stimulus. They set up an object to be striven for and an ideal of strength or skill. The object is honor-honor of no great worth, perhaps, but still honor to the student mind. To secure a victory in any sport, good brains in the players contribute quite as much as good muscles. In fact, it is the skilled muscles roughly directed by good brains which...
...than by referring to the Yale crew of 1883. A more magnificent body of men physically never sat in a shell. But what was the use of this combination of strength, length of reach, and power of endurance, when we find the first essential and greatest requisite absent_viz, skill! These eight men had been trained to row a cramped or chopping stroke, with not one particle of execution. In fact, this crew did not extend from start to finish, but exhausted their strength and frittered away their power, simply in motion and movement which was neither graceful nor effectual...
During the recent convention of representatives from Harvard, Yale and other colleges to consider the subject of athletics, one of the speakers unbosomed himself thus: "Athletics have come to the pass where they are no longer fair and open trials of strength and skill, but on the contrary, as at present conducted, they train the young men to look upon victory as the rewards of treachery and deceit. That this is the case, anyone who has seen the game of baseball as it is played by the so-called best college nines will at once admit. For the pitcher, instead...
...Brown pitcher some years back, Saulsbury, played with professional clubs for several years, and a representative of Princeton, a gentleman with the euphonious name of Funkhouser, was for some time with the St. Louis team. These are only a few instances in which college athletes have turned their skill to profit; probably if a complete record had been kept twenty-five or thirty cases of this sort could be cited. That is a remarkably large number, when we consider that professional base-ball playing has practically been in existence only about fifteen years and that there are only...
...freshman class been brighter than those of the present freshman class. Excelling its opponent in numbers, athletic facilities, and support, it certainly equals Yale '87 in material and enthusiasm. Among the numerous candidates for a position in the nine, many are already well-known as players of no mean skill; some are prominent from their past records. But the class has opposed to it a class asready remarked for its persevering spirit and determination to succeed. The very name of Yale seems to carry with it, in the field, some premonition of success for the blue. The only thing which...