Word: guard
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Still more careless are such statements as that five crews were engaged in last year's boat race, that J. W. Hallowell 1901, played guard on his freshman eleven, that there are two deans of the Law School. Such a blunder as the substitution of three of the Weld crews for the corresponding class crews in the summary of the class races is absolutely unpardonable. Mistakes like these and the omission of the catalogue by buildings rob the Index of fully half its value...
...this plan the candidates are all subjected to a thorough trying out process upon an equal basis; they are given more racing and the period of training for the great race in June is shortened to about seven weeks. The object of such a plan is twofold: to guard against the chances of overtraining a crew by reason of a long monotonous period of work, and to give the men who finally make up the crew racing ability...
...Brown of Quogue, N. Y., has been appointed temporary captain of the Yale freshman crew. He prepared at Groton and played guard on this year's Yale 'varsity football team...
Chadwick, the other guard, has represented Yale for four years on the track, and is therefore ineligible to compete again next spring. Graff, who sprained a tendon in the games last year, has not been allowed to do any work since in order that his ankle might regain its strength. He is now as strong as ever, and will be Yale's mainstay in the sprints the coming season...
...reduced to six. The men thus chosen might then take sides-three on a side-work up the question and enter a final competition which should take the form of a regular debate with main and rebuttal speeches by each competitor. Such a system we feel certain will guard against any unwise choice, will make all of the contestants feel that they have a more thorough trial, and will not be open to the manifest objections which we have pointed out in the present system...