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...past the fallacious idea that any star in a sport is competent to coach teams in that sport has been widely held. As a matter of fact, this is no more true that every man that can do sums will make a good teacher of mathematics. Teaching is an art in itself, and this applies to athletic coaching as well as to every other form of instruction...
Smith received 5 points credit towards the championship because it had the most numeral men on the winter sport teams, basketball, hockey and wrestling. Gore ranked second in numeral men with Standish a close third...
...winter sport series is made up of six contests and the rating awarded for numeral men. First place counts 5 points, second place 3 and third place one point...
...every day on artificial ice, and a tennis squad playing indoors during rain and thaw. The crew men, as well as the baseball a had anticipated the outdoor season by practising under cover. With the calling out of football candidates for spring training, one can say with truth that sport lovers defy the seasons. Although Dr. Johnson had in mind the serious side of life when speaking of inclement weather, he would rejoice to add further comment were he to meet two undergraduates seeking recreation on a damp February day, one bound for the hockey-rink, the other...
...second year of revival as a recognized Freshman minor sport basketball has proven an unqualified success. The Yearling quintet has played a schedule of fourteen games, facing the strongest teams in New England secondary school circles, as well as the strong Yale 1924 team and several other college freshman teams, and receiving only two defeats...