Word: teams
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...YORK, March 27.- At a meeting of chess repsentatives from Yale, Princeton and Columbia at the Manhattan Club the following team was chosen to play against the English universities: E. E. Southard 1M of Harvard, W. M. Murdock of Yale, A. S. Meyer of Columbia, E. B. Seymour of Princeton. The match is to kake place in the rooms of the Manhattan Club on April 20. Harvard, whose representative, Southard, could not be present, telegraphed that she would concur in all arrangements...
...doubtful one, but by her double success this year Yale has undeniably taken first place. For Harvard to be forced into the tail position after her past triumphs would be a comedown unpleasant to consider, and therefore the men selected in Friday's trial from whom the final team is to be chosen, are expected to spare no pains in making their preparation thorough...
Today Lynch, Burgess, Rand, McCornick, Haughton, Clark, Laughlin, Chandler and Foster will be measured for suits. From these men the team that is to be taken on the southern trip will probably be chosen. No battery candidates will be measured at present, as the period of practice has not been sufficiently long to enable a final choice to be made for some time...
...next two trials will offer far more in the way of useful preparation than has been provided heretofore. The extra time therefore which must elapse before the team gets down to work need not be wasted. In the second trial ten or twelve minutes will be allowed for each speech. Judgment can thus be passed on ability to deliver a sustained argument, skillfully massed, and showing some grasp of the subject. Enough men will then be kept to carry out, with special reference to rebuttal, a set debate as a final test...
...would suggest that as a legitimate means of training, those who are dropped at the third trial might make a very useful second team to debate against the successful candidates...