Word: coaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost unavoidable some degree of graduate pressure in the selection of the crew. The gradual emancipation of athletics as Harvard which has resulted in the present independence of their administrators, is also indicated by the appointment of Mr. Whiteside It is significant that his selection brings to Harvard a coach who can hardly be suspected of being under the thumb of alumni influence. It should be possible to keep the new slate of Harvard rowing clean of any such suspicion; and when this hope becomes an actuality, the outburst of traditional Bulletin patriotism will be accepted as perfectly justified...
...CRIMSON to print an editorial in which allusion is made to "the various groups of alumni who sometimes make the College's rowing policy a matter of concern to themselves." And the CRIMSON goes on, "There still remain vestiges of past rowing history which may hamper the new coach." This editorial and others which have appeared in the CRIMSON indicate that the undergraduate paper suffers from an obsession which is more or less widespread although it has no foundation...
...whatever may be the virtues and failings of the coach who has had charge of the university crew during the past three years, be cannot fairly be accused of truckling, even to Harvard graduates. The truth is that Harvard graduates have not interfered with the coaches, at least in the last forty years. It is easy for a disappointed coach, or for an enthusiastic father who believes his son has not been fairly treated in the competition for a place on a team, to say and even to believe that there was alumni interference, in particular by the graduate committees...
...Coach Stubbs' charges were not to be denied and Garrison came back later with a score that put the Crimson back in the running. In the last half of the period play was furious with both sides uncorking some sparkling hockey. Toronto widened the gap, however, when McMullen counted on a pass from Stewart...