Word: coaching
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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They won a magnificent victory over a fine crew, and won it handsomely. All honor to them and their gallant coach...
...long practice and the severe training which the crew have kept up during the year. Each man on the crew deserves the thanks of the University for the untiring efforts each has expended to win the success of which we are all so proud. To Mr. Watson, the coach, we owe a debt of profound gratitude which we most gratefully acknowledge; but the one man to whom Harvard owes most for the success of her oars is the captain, Mr. Bancroft. His earnest labors, his close attention to the needs of each man, his deep study of methods of rowing...
ALTHOUGH the Union Boat-Club have declined their challenge, the Freshmen have voted to keep their crew in training; and they will probably carry the coach of the University in their coxswain's seat...
DURING the past two weeks, rain or shine, the crew have been steadily taking their daily pulls. They row each afternoon from five to eight miles, generally in the shell, but sometimes, for more careful coaching, in the barge. The two substitutes also practice daily, in a pairoar. The coach comes out from Boston several times a week, and is earnestly laboring to turn out a victorious crew from the eight strong, rugged fellows who have been selected to represent us at Springfield. The crew are steadily improving, and are much farther advanced than - so far as the writer...
...rows are usually four or five miles long, on which the crew is followed by the coach in another boat, and stopped often for instruction. Every few days a longer journey is taken to give the men a chance to get together. On Saturday last the row was to Watertown and back. The speed was fair, and the men kept the boat unusually steady for this time of the season...