Word: turned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dispute. In the first letter I received from you, you referred to the fact that your foot-ball team came to Cambridge this year, but of course you know there is no connection between the foot-ball and base-ball games, and unless I am misinformed, it was your turn to come to Cambridge for that game...
...Walter Camp, the graduate in structor, and supervisor of field sports at Yale, does not turn out a success in every branch of athletics. He was engaged last fall to coach, not only the foot-ball eleven and base-ball nine, but also to teach the men track athletics. In the first two branches he was known to be an expert and made satisfactory progress in his work. A few days ago, the men interested in track athletics began to appear on the field, and Mr. Camp undertook to take them in hand and give them instruction. According...
This state of things only shows how difficult it is to find one man capable of attending to all branches of athletics in turn. Our faculty have declared that they wished to find a graduate director of field sports. The failure of Mr. Camp, a man acknowledged to be fitted for just such a position, if any one was, leads us to believe that such a director cannot be found. Different instructors for the different sports will have to be engaged as hitherto, if Harvard intends to have her athletics looked after. College graduates are not likely to accept...
...minutes on the machines. This has been going on for some time, and the good effects of hard work are beginning to show themselves. Of course, freshmen can learn little of rowing on the machines, but what they have accomplished gives promise that they will very quickly turn into good oarsmen when once they row on the river-this they expect to do in about two weeks...
...members of the Yale Bicycle club severely sprained his arm while riding during the recess. A team refused to turn out for him and forced him down a ten feet embankment...