Word: teams
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...When one of these institutions starts to make up a football schedule, the sole aim seems to be to so arrange games that the team may work up to its maximum strength at the end of the season when it is expected to meet one or two strong competitors. The schedule is arranged so that in the early part of the season teams are played which are not real competitors at all, and cannot be expected to win except by reason of some extraordinary circumstance...
...this group of large institutions is concerned, there can be no decision as to championship or first place. But the effect on the smaller institutions is very questionable. The desire of many of these, when they get on the schedule of a big team, is to strive to win that particular game because of a certain prestige which victory will assure them. Certainly the development of such a team is not normal. Moreover, the temptation has been too powerful to be overcome, and strong players have been enticed to small institutions by means which would not bear publication...
There is an unusually good opportunity for in experienced men to make the team this year. Pole-vaulters, shot-putters, and quarter-milers are needed especially; and men who have any ability in these events will have an excellent chance of competing against Yale...
...competition for second assistant manager is open to all members of 1921 who are in good standing at the College Office. Candidates will compete until May 21, the date of the Intercollegiate. At that time, the second assistant manager of the track team, and second assistant manager of the University cross-country team will be appointed...
Princeton's new baseball coach, Clarke, will make no statement about baseball prospects so early in the season. But with the return of nine letter men things look brighter. Captain W. H. Bade of last year's team, will probably hold down his old position at third base, while the completion for the other infield positions is very lively. Of the three battery candidates two are veterans of last year's team, and the third man, H. C. Margetts, '21, did some good box work in the freshman games with both Harvard and Yale last year...