Word: trainer
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University and Freshman hockey teams held last evening at the Varsity Club about 50 men were present. Coach A. Winsor '02 spoke on the requisites of an effective hockey team, emphasizing the necessity of good foot-work, stick-work, and finally good head-work. Following Coach Winsor, Trainer Quinn announced that strict training will be required from now to the end of the season. The training table for the University team will begin at the Varsity Club with lunch on the first day after the recess. The meeting was concluded with a blackboard talk by Coach Winsor...
...everywhere else is regarded as indispensable. Whether the argument is that the personnel is so good that the men can afford to depend wholly upon their innate fitness and subjective inspirations, or on the other hand that it is so bad as to make it extravagant to waste a trainer upon them, does not appear. But either argument is fallacious...
...mile cross-country run is no slight task and the supervision of a competent trainer is necessary not only to help the team to win, but also to protect the men from the physical risk of zeal untempered by knowledge. Rumor says that other teams than the cross-country have also been left uncared for, but to none of them are the dangers of bodily harm arising from such neglect more imminent...
...general testimony of trainers that young athletes left to themselves will do too much rather than too little, in the belief that strenuous training will bring the development of the body to an abnormal state in which any amount of competitive strain can be supported with ease. It is a common fallacy, which has often been examplified in the case of such sports as tennis in which the supervision of a trainer is seldom available. If we are correctly informed, the cross-country men give a very good example of it this fall...
...great disadvantage under which a team labors that has been poorly coached or not coached at all when it meets a team coached by an expert like Moakley of Cornell. Except in 1908 when Alfred Schrubb coached, the Harvard team has not had the services of a first-class trainer. Schrubb accomplished wonders in a few weeks with the runners, but his stay was too brief for his work to be of more than temporary effect...