Word: westing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Heffelfinger, who is now coaching the eleven of the University of California, has expressed himself as much surprised to find the game so far advanced in the west...
...great difference, however, between eastern and western football, he says, is remarkably evident in the kicking and punting. In the east a good deal of time is devoted to these details, and consequently we find fullbacks who seldom make a bad punt or miss a goal. In the west it is different; the kicking and punting is poor-it could hardly...
poorer. Football in the west will never equal the game in the east. There are not enough preparatory schools, the training school of the football player. A good football player must have it born in him, and it requires practice to bring out a man's good qualities. The preparatory schools of the east serve this purpose. Then there is another disadvantage in the west; a team cannot get the practice necessary to insure success. Athletic clubs can supply this in part, as being better than nothing, but there is not the enthusiasm shown in this kind of game that...
This trip is peculiar because the clubs will not go west of Cleveland. In previous years they have invariably been at least as far west as Chicago...
sition, and as he is an instructor of original ideas and deep research, he is likely to exert a wide influence on the study of classics in the West...