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...Yale alumni dinner in New York, Capt. Bob Cook is reported to have said that: "Harvard refused to accept the English system until 1876, and she has since been trying hard to reach as favorable a standing as the other college crews." Indeed! How many more races than Yale has Harvard won since that time? Some one must have blundered...
Capt. Robert J. Cook, familiarly known as "Bob" Cook, has been talking again about the "English" stroke and the debt owed by the American colleges to himself, who first introduced the stroke in this country. In an interview with a reporter of the Philadelphia Bulletin, Capt. Cook speaks somewhat as follows...
...Captain Bob Cook, who undertook to coach the Yale crew this winter and spring, finds that he will be unable to devote the necessary amount of time to the work. Hull, the captain of last year's crew, has been persuaded to complete the task. Mr. Hull was the great exponent of the "yank," which proved so disastrous the last two years, and he has had to receive considerable instruction himself in the English stroke of Captain Cook. For this purpose he recently spent a fortnight in Philadelphia under the coaching of Mr. Cook and Mr. Wood, who performed...
...prospects for 1884. The names of the various candidates from which the crew will be taken has been published hitherto. As is well known the famous "yank" of 1882 and 83, has been discarded and in its place the old stroke of eleven years ago, introduced from England by Bob Cook, which won Yale the race at Longmeadow in 1873, has been revived under his careful supervision. Mr. Cook is amply satisfied with the material at hand and expects them to win the race next June when they shall have become fully practised in his method of rowing. Much interest...
...before the recess. This term, when they return, strict training will be begun. The crew will be at a training table after January 15, and will begin the use of sliding seats this term. The work of last term was on stationary seats under the general direction of Captain Bob Cook who visited New Haven four times. This term his visits will be weekly. Eleven men have been selected to train and from them the crew will be chosen later on. Two of them, Capt. Flanders, '85, and Peters, '86, were members of last year's crew. Of the remainder...