Word: train
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There will be extra rehearsals of the club this (Thursday) afternoon, at 4 P. M., and on Friday at 11 A. M. A full attendance is necessary. The club will take the 3 P. M. train on Friday for Concord. N. H. Associate members are cordiy invited to accompany the club...
...Harvard freshmen have definitely declined the challenge of the Yale freshmen to play off the tie in foot-ball. The team has now been out of training for a week and it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to get into playing trim again in so short a time as is now left. Mr. Walter Oakes, the manager of the Harvard eleven, says in his letter declining the challenge, that "it is impossible to play another game, although we would like very much to play off the tie. Our semi-annuals are at hand and the men think that...
...contrast strongly with those of our team, beginning play seldom much before 4.30, and forced to stop by a twilight much earlier than that of Princeton. Princeton has no Boston near at hand, and the captain knows just about what all his men are doing in the way of training, -indeed they have to train to stand so much daily work. Princeton's great advantage of course lies in beginning work before the middle of September. Then as most of the men are upper classmen whose play and positions are comparatively well known, the team is soon permanently picked...
...clip the following from the editorial columns of the Princetonian : "There is an impression prevalent in college that our foot-ball team is not faithfully living up to that rigid course of training which alone is calculated to develop the powers of the men to their full and legitimate extent. Our own opinion, justified by occasional remarks of some members of the team, is that several players are not doing their duty. It is a shame, but nevertheless a fact, that some men will work harder and train more faithfully before the team is chosen and when there is free...
...doubt if Harvard will ever play foot-ball "for all it is worth" until Harvard finds a competent coach-some one who will train our elevens as Mr. Bancroft has trained our eights. Some we know, will not admit that foot-ball can be taught in this definite way. But they need only notice this great improvement of foot-ball at Yale under Mr. Camp's coaching, and to learn about the wonderful work done by coaching at Adams Academy some years ago when the school was large,-to be convinced that foot-ball can be taught ; that it would...