Word: unfitness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Princeton and Yale play against one another demonstrated that when careful attention is given by physicians and trainers the risk of death or serious injury is not great. It is in the games between these powerful teams and weaker ones, or in games in which the players are physically unfit or the proper medical attention is not given that serious accidents are most likely to happen. In drafting its rules the Committee has to consider not only the big institutions where football is played under the most favorable conditions and where every safeguard in the way of training...
...President's appreciation of the improvement in athletic, as shown in the way the sports themselves have been conducted and in the growing feeling that they, ought always to yield pleasure and healthful vigor instead of grinding, unenjoyable work and injurious exhaustion." Football he still considers unfit for college uses, both because of the roughness of the game itself and of the way it affects gambling and exaggerated excitement...
...early as occasion arose, or, if this were not possible, nominating them as dummies for election. We believe that within a few days after the opening of the competition a manager should, after careful consideration and personal interviews with each man, drop all whom he knows to be unfit for the position. In doubtful cases, he should tell, the candidate how his case stands, so that, if he elects to continue in the competition, he does it with his eyes open...
...like to criticize the men who have been secured under protest to officiate at the less important contests, and who have done the best they knew how; but it has been evident, especially in past class series, that the officials were unfit to exercise the authority placed in them. If graduate players and men familiar with the game will co-operate with the captains and managers in their efforts to secure officials who will strictly and intelligently enforce the rules, much of the unpleasantness which results form faulty rulings in these keenly fought games will be obviated...
...regard to sickness, Captain Bacon is the only man that has been in the boat since the season started. Richardson was unable to report at first on account of water on the knee; Glass was out of the Cornell race on account of the mumps; and Severance was physically unfit for the Columbia race; at other times Farley and Fish have been out of the boat with colds. Several of the Freshmen have also been laid up since the beginning of the season, and at present it is very doubtful whether Wyman, number 5, who has the mumps...