Word: upon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Saturday. Throughout the afternoon's drill, the first three teams took turns on the defensive against a team which put on Harvard plays as interpreted by the Dartmouth scouts. Coach Cannell has emphasized defensive play throughout the week's practice, with the result that little stress has been placed upon offensive drills...
Harvard's starting lineup now seems practically determined. Four new faces will be seen among the eleven who will answer the call of the referee's opening whistle. Two of these men, Devens and Potter, are upon Team A as a result of a radical mid-week shift by Coach Horween, while Gildea is in there because of Ticknor's absence, and Douglas has regained the post of which he was deprived because of an injury. Whether or not Douglas will stay in the game long is problematical...
...report shows, Harvard has been in general, very successful in eliminating the evils usually attendant upon college sport. Certainly the H. A. A. has made a continuous and sincere effort to keep Harvard athletics in line with the written and unwritten principles of the amateur spirit. The fact that it was the officials of the H. A. A. who were responsible for bringing to the attention of the investigators the one feature of their policy which failed to pass musier is ample proof of the eagerness of these men to put Harvard athletics in the cleanest possible condition...
...these days of highly organized sport it is necessary to avoid even the suspicion of evil, and the H. A. A. has wisely concluded to get out of what has come to be looked upon as shady business. Whether it has been altogether wise to place the management of the concessions in the hands of the College Employment Office is another matter. Already there has been friction between the two organizations of a sort which augurs ill for the success of the project. After all, employment is one thing and business management quite another and it is unreasonable to suppose...
...College make the problem a particularly difficult one. Several considerations make it unwise to sell them to outside interests as is done by professional promoters. And the fact remains that there will be several positions at the disposal of the Employment Office which will in effect confer a subsidy upon the incumbent, athlete or no. As there seems to be no good reason why this should be done, some provision must be made for disposing of the income over and above that necessary for the fair compensation of the men employed on the concessions. At Yale twenty-five per cent...