Word: chessmen
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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...Yale seem to be on the right track in proposing to limit the power of the most purely professional element, the coaches. Modern football tends to assume the aspect of a contest of skill between two experts who use college boys as their instruments of play instead of chessmen or cards. At Yale they are not talking of keeping the coaches away from the game and letting the players play it for themselves. This would, of course, give an advantage to the older and larger institutions with a longer and sounder athletic tradition; but it may be a suggestion...