Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...proposal to define the functions of the coaches does not aim, nor will it have the effect, as Mr. Herrick appears to believe, of causing coaches to take "the place of undergraduate leadership and skill." Everyone will recognize that both Coach Haughton and Captain Mahan had a part in last fall's football victory, but the roles played were of a different order. Haughton's was of instruction, Mahan's of execution...
...presentation of a cup for greatest improvement in the field events, and the system of electing captains for the various departments may arouse the competitive spirit where it bears most fruit. That as great skill in the field events may be obtained by conscientious practice as by any natural aptitude has been proved in the last two seasons. Men with mediocre physical qualifications have developed into intercollegiate point winners. As the track team never has had at its disposal an abundance of field event material, more men with will-power and a desire to be athletic should specialize in some...
...events. It is ridiculous to assume that the material for these events is not available. It is here, and in trying to locate some of it, I am forced to admit that I have met some of the so-called Harvard indifference. Many of the men have shown their skill in other forms of athletics and are eligible track material, yet no amount of persuasion can induce them to come to the field and work for one short hour each...
...whole, then, it can be said that during the past ten years the American universities of the north have begun to see the advantages, the excitement, and the fun in these sports, and to realize that they make for endurance and skill, and have given them a greater and greater place among their athletics
Awkward and only ordinary English may be an obstacle to true enjoyment of the Illustrated until that magazine sees the egregious folly of publishing material because of the fame of the writer--not fame as a writer, but fame as an athlete or something else as diametrically opposed to skill with the quill. If the journalistic tendencies of the Illustrated prompt the display of well-known names, then let men who can write well interview the well-known names, but do not force the well-known names to do themselves an injustice by sand-bagging the President's English...