Bill Reid's Diary
Diary
By: Bill Reid
Date: September 20 and November 25, 1905
Source: Reid, Bill. Diary entries, September 20 and November 25, 1905. Reprinted in Big-time Football at Harvard, 1905: The Diary of Coach Bill Reid. Ronald A. Smith, ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994, 128–130, 316–318.
About the Author: Bill Reid (1878–1976) would become an influential member of the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA), starting at its establishment in 1906 as the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (IAAUS). However, after an impressive record as Harvard's football coach, he accepted employment as assistant headmaster at his father's Belmont School in California. He later had a failed career as a bond salesman. Reid was elected into the Football Hall of Fame in 1970.
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