Word: tolbert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With six more men in uniform yesterday, the University basketball squad, now numbering forty-eight candidates, went through its second day of practice under the direction of Coach Watcher and Assistant Coach Tolbert. It is expected that the total will be well above the fifty mark next week when football men report of work on the court...
...stressing particularly the ability to pass accuately, for it is upon this phase of the game, the coaches believe, that a team's speed and scoring power depend. As in the opening practice, the players were divided into two squads, Coach Wachter taking the experienced material while Assistant Coach Tolbert worked with the new candidates. No scrimmages will be held until next week, at least, and then the teams selected will be merely temporary...
Freshman will start work soon, probably at the beginning of next week; manager candidates from 1925 will be called out at the same time. J. R. Tolbert 1L., Captain of last season's University five, will help Coach Wachter with the Yearlings, who will practice in the Freshman Athletic Building. The 1925 schedule has not as yet been completed, but will probably include a contest with the Yale Freshmen, as well with the principal preparatory school fives in the vicinity...
...present there is informal basketball practice every afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock, but beginning Monday there will be an exercise group meeting three times a week at 4 o'clock, and the regular Yearling basketball squad practicing daily at 5 o'clock under Assistant Coach J. R. Tolbert...
Balloting to fill the vacancy caused by the graduation of J. R. Tolbert Jr. '22 was completed yesterday with the result that John Fiske Brown '22 of Plymouth has been elected captain of the University track team for the immediate season...