Word: eli
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Yale's prospects for turning out another championship baseball team this year have been considerably brightened by the acquisition of Franklin Coxe, who promises to be one of the best collegiate pitchers of many seasons. With the loss of Frank Talcott, last year's star boxman, the Eli hopes have been resting on Robinson and Selleck, neither of whom have done as well as was expected, but the splendid pitching of Coxe has given new prospects for success...
...catcher, and Faherty, outfielder and captain of the 1916 Andover team, have likewise increased the strength of the team. Both have been laid up all spring with water on the knee, but are now practicing daily. Holmes, as well as being a good man behind the bat, led the Eli hitters last season...
...Soderston '19, who now strokes the Eli boat, is not as smooth an oar as Heminway, but he has more power, and is learning to keep the men well in hand behind him. R. Allen '19, at 6, is the mainstay of the crew and is improving daily, but he lacks the weight of Rockefeller and the ability to keep the stroke long at the finish which is so necessary in a good number 6, and in which Rockefeller was remarkable. W. F. C. Ewing '21, who took Allen's seat at 4 is a pretty oar, but seems...
Stiff opposition is expected from Yale this season since Garland and Hawkes, star members of last year's Eli team, are again among the leading candidates. Both of these men have been rated among the best players in the country...
...system in so far as athletics for the undergraduate body are developed, and in the establishment of good athletic supervision. But in the spirit of reorganization, Yale seems to have overshot the mark and evidences a desire to win at all costs. This aspiration to retrieve the fallen Eli athletic laurels seems to have gone beyond the scope of the desired reconstruction, in the reduction of the much discussed expensive semi-professionalism of college athletics, particularly by the resumption of training tables and employment of seasonal coaches. The whole tone of the new rules is very strong and omnipotent...