Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...though it must be remembered that in cricket as in other sports the captain performs many of the functions of the American coach). But there are several features of the coaching of both varsity crew and varsity rugby teams, to take the most prominent examples, which would generally, I think, be more closely associated in our minds with a professional than with an amateur regime. The purely amateur, or to be more accurate, self-coaching stage of such sports as varsity rowing and rugby comes early in the season. Throughout the first term in rowing and until the middle...
From past performances, if scores mean anything, I think Yale with victories over Dartmouth, Army, and Princeton ought to enter the game a favorite, and I hope it does for from a psychological point that will give the Harvard team a distinct advantage...
...soccer men that both organization and training are slack as far as the college branches of their sports are concerned. The interesting fact, though, is not that they admitted the organization of these sports to be loose, but that they complained of its being too loose. For I think that it may safely be said that as a rule the English student places relatively little store by efficient management and well developed organization in his sports. In rugby, for example, matches of one kind or another start almost with the season, and from then on the participants are far more...
...Harvard team this fall has had a lot of bad breaks, and I do not think that the scores of the games are indicative of the strength of the team. I have watched them pretty closely this week on the field and off and they have built up a spirit, a morale that I don't think can be beaten...
This year's Yale-Harvard game will be a great battle. It will be a game that we'll all remember: and I think that Yale will have to save her undertaker's song for some time in the future...