Word: teams
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...reasonable to suppose that, if the Harvard cross-country team had met Yale with an equality of skilled professional coaching, the first six finishers in that race would have been all Yale men? Is it not humiliating that in the meet with Technology, which most of our men entered under the handicap of physical disability, the paid coach of their opponents, after seeing his team to an over-whelming victory, gave, out of the kindness of his heart, counsel as to the well-being of the Harvard team, which he evidently pitied as being sheep without a shepherd...
...professional coach has been provided for this team and its disasters, humiliating as they have been, are but what might have been expected. Every college with which it has competed, on the other hand, has had the benefit of expert professional coaching. A few members of our team have perhaps had the benefit of a little such coaching when they were in preparatory schools, for even the latter are very generally provided with adequate coaches. Their companions in these schools who have passed into the teams of other colleges, even the smallest ones, have had this training continued until they...
...mile cross-country run is no slight task and the supervision of a competent trainer is necessary not only to help the team to win, but also to protect the men from the physical risk of zeal untempered by knowledge. Rumor says that other teams than the cross-country have also been left uncared for, but to none of them are the dangers of bodily harm arising from such neglect more imminent...
...what we have said on this subject we do not wish to be understood as in any degree attacking specific teams or coaches. If Harvard coaches instruct their men from the side-lines they are merely taking advantage of an opportunity which is open equally to all coaches. Every team that played on Soldiers Field this fall was instructed in the same way. The practice is one which is generally followed, but which ought to be abolished for the good of the sport...
...University hockey squad held its second practice of the season on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. Instead of played association football against the University soccer team as they did on last Friday, the members of the hockey squad were divided into two teams, who lined very early the game lasted only about 45 minutes...