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DEAR SIRS-I think that the graduate who complains in the CRIMSON of the poor place reserved for coaches in the Yale-Harvard game is all wrong. He says that the coaches should have one side of the field instead of an end. But this would be manifestly unfair. A coach holds about twelve men on an average, but the space taken up by one would accommodate six rows of eight men each. or 48 men. Supposing that twenty coaches-a small number were present, two hundred and forty men would occupy the space which might have held nine hundred...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 11/12/1889 | See Source »

...characteristics of their rigging are the short stretchers, and slides as long as a man naturally can use and varying for each man. In England every stretcher is fixed at an angle of 45 degrees and the exact number of inches the crew can slide fixed by the coach. In the Oxford and Cambridge crews this is from 15 to 151/2 inches, and is exactly the same for a long man as for a short man. The seat is then stopped 1,1/2 inches from the pin toward the bow. The only variable measurement in the whole boat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Stroke. | 11/9/1889 | See Source »

...undecided who will act as coach for the university crew this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/6/1889 | See Source »

Camp will coach the Yale eleven regularly after the first of November...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/2/1889 | See Source »

...question as to who will act as coach of the university crew this year will probably by decided this week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/30/1889 | See Source »