Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...been said, the task of the coach is no easy one. The college is looking to the freshmen for a winning crew, and every member of the class should do all in his power to see that the college is not disappointed. Just now the call is for all the freshmen who have been playing football. The men themselves should see that it is promptly answered...
...that the excitement of football is over, attention turns to the 'varsity crew, This year's captain starts out with the not easy task of having three positions to fill, as only four of last year's crew have returned to college. It will be difficult to sift out three men to take the places of Kelton, Rantoul and Lynam. The football men who rowed last year will take a rest, but very soon Newell, Waters, Acton and Cummings will begin rowing again...
...position the full-backs of last year are the quarter-backs of this, and both are the captains of their teams. It is true that both elevens have been able to find experienced men from other colleges to fill some of these vacancies, but this has made the task hardly less difficult, since these men were accustomed to the peculiar methods employed by their old colleges and had contracted habits of play which were radically different from those of their new teams...
...this are the innumerable chances of recovery, of fresh starts, which are so needful in this life of ours. At night we lay down a burden that seems too heavy to again take up and how often have we in the morning been able to renew the task to pick up the burden...
...early to predict how strong a team Yale will put into the field, there is no doubt but that it will be far above the average. It is improbable however, that it will equal last year's team, with its clean score, for it will be a very difficult task to find men good enough to fill the places left vacant by the departure of such old players, as Heffelfinger, Morrison, McClung, and Barbour...