Word: threes
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...thirty-four years that have elapsed since Rugby Football was introduced into this country, Yale and Harvard have played twenty-nine championship matches, and of these Yale has won twenty-three and Harvard four. Since 1889, when Harvard withdrew from the Intercollegiate Association, Yale has won thirteen times and Harvard four. These figures are too divergent to be accounted for by any theory of accident, though 'Yale luck' has passed into a proverb. No; it is a superficial view of the case which fails to see that underlying this long succession of victories there are significant facts concerning the methods...
...will say at once that thirty is an impossible number. It is, and it is not. Sixty is not impossible, if they work together under powerful leadership. Three is too many if they do not. In any case, accepted and admitted leadership is essential, meaning by that a head whose decisions are unhesitatingly accepted, and for whose policy, right or wrong, every man labors...
...rely on them; he feels their presence, even though he cannot see them; he knows instinctively as he advances that they are by his side or backing him up at a definite spot; he goes into the play with a wholly new confidence; he is really three men in one, for their effort is directly interlocked with his, and deep down in his consciousness he both knows it and feels...
...would begin work in the Boston Arena Monday afternoon at 5.30 o'clock, unless a notice to the contrary should be posted at Leavitt & Peirce's. The schedule is not complete yet, but the first game will probably take place in the middle of December. As there are only three weeks before this game, practice will probably be held in Boston four times a week, on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. F. W. Paul '11; who will coach the Freshmen, spoke next. He said that practice for the Freshman team will not commence yet, but all men who are coming...
...special car to New Haven. At 11.45 o'clock the squad reached New Haven and went directly to the Yale Dining Hall for lunch. Coaches Leary and Cutting joined the squad at lunch and accompanied it to Yale Field this afternoon. Secret practice was held for an hour. The three elevens ran through signals and much attention was given to kicking. Corbett, Felton, Minot and Tryon punted, the ends running down under the kicks. The backs took turns in catching the punts. Lewis, Potter and Wigglesworth spent a long time practicing drop-kicks. In the signal practice, attention was given...