Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...meeting of former coaches and captains of Yale football teams, called by Captain Ketcham, was held at the Hotel Taft, New Haven, Saturday evening. It was attended by seven former captains, and a number of former coaches. Nothing was definitely decided upon, that being left to Captain Ketcham, but the plan which seemed to meet with most favor was one by which Walter Camp should be placed in his former position as advisory coach with such a man as W. W. Heffelfinger '91, as field coach. This plan is favored by certain members of the faculty and has been recommended...
Transcript on President Taft...
President Taft has accepted the Kent professorship of law at Yale, and will probably take up his duties early in the spring. The Transcript comments as follows...
...Taft is said to have determined upon accepting the Yale professorship for several reasons. He will not be restricted merely to lectures to Yale students, but will be permitted to lecture if he desires in other law schools or upon the platform, or to engage in any other occupation which he sees fit. If the President had returned to Cincinnati to resume law practice he felt that he would have but little opportunity for practice. He felt that he could not appear in cases before the United States Supreme Court because he has appointed a majority of its membership...
...President will be in surroundings dear to him and will be in a position to engage in almost any sort of business in which he believes an ex-President can fittingly engage. The analogy between the Yale professorship and Gover Cleveland's relation with Princeton appealed to Mr. Taft strongly, and when many of his close friends and advisers wrote to him approving his acceptance of the chair at Yale he decided to take...