Word: coaching
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...department is one in which Coach Reggie Root has no worry. Dent, Jim McTernan, and Tim Hoopes are all outstanding flank men, and should cause the Crimson secondary no end of worry this afternoon. Gene Constant in has been a bulwark of the line from his right tackle post and has made more than his share of tackles in the season now nearly over. Center Bill Over lock has drawn considerable attention by his stellar backing up of the Eli line...
...infrequently, when the following season gets underway, some aspirant for the same playing position as that of the captain develops so rapidly and so improves that he fits more effectively than does the captain into the scheme of play which the coach figures will prove the strongest employment of his available material...
Immediately there develops an embarrassing situation--a situation equally difficult for the boy and for the coach--a situation that can readily disrupt the complete coordination essential to the team...
...their starting position on the first team was inviolate. The zest and the constant drive which made them outstanding the year before has been lost. Then again there have been those who, upon election to the captaincy, apparently assumed that their selection was paramount to an appointment to the coaching staff. They became simultaneously a would-be mixture of coach, strategist, big brother, disciplinarian and critic whose opinions must be considered not only sound but indisputable...
...believe the solution to this situation is to dispense with the election of a captain at the close of the season and to wait until late in the following season for an election; to have the coach appoint various individuals to set in that capacity during the early games and then, a week or perhaps two weeks prior to the Yale game, when the final make-up of the starting team is decided--strictly upon football merit and expediency--to have the players elect the man they then wish to honor and to have represent them