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...time and watermanship, the latter above all. The crew promises to do good work and will probably give the 'varsity plenty of hard practice, if indeed not proving more than a match for it. There has long been need of some such sort of a crew, graduate coaching in many cases being better given when the coach has an oar in another boat. It is certainly to be hoped that this venture will meet with the success it deserves, and that every year there will be some such crew to give the aid only such a crew can give...
Many of the undergraduates are not pleased with the turn affairs have taken and fear that with six old men in the boat the crew will become overconfident, and not train with sufficient care. The men have been somewhat handicapped by not having a regular coach, but Bob Cook will take them in hand during the Easter recess, when they will row twice a day and at the end of that time a great improvement may be looked...
...have seen, there was a revolution in rowing at Harvard. It was not until the early part of winter that Mr. Storrow, in the face of a certain amount of passive opposition, took the rather daring step, by engaging Mr. Faulkner as coach, of throwing overboard all those principles which, it is supposed, had won Harvard many a splendid victory. An entirely new system of rowing was inaugurated, and there was much grumbling and dubious head-shaking at the issue. Yale, on the contrary, was highly elated at Harvard's adoption of the "professional" stroke. Her crew, be it said...
...Yale Freshman Crew, as they rowed on the harbor for the first time Saturday morning, was composed of the following men: 1, Jones, '91, S.; 2, Balliet, 3, Kidd; 4, W. Haskell; 5, Crosby; 6, Thompson; 7, Ryle; 8, Swayne. Donnelly, '89, acted as coach...
...barge, but after they once got off, the rowing was fair. There was a noticeable lack of swing and the reach was very short. The following men made up the crew: Thomas, bow, Weed, 2; Travis, 3; Jones, 4; Chase, 5; Hunt, 6; Powers, 7; Watriss, stroke; Kidder, coach. They stayed out about an hour when the men in the first crew took their places in the barge. They were seated in the following order Hubbard, bow; Dewey, 2; Rantoul, 3; Porter, 4; Steadman 5; Goddard, 6; Kidder, 7; Cheney, stroke; Carpenter, '89, coach. Watriss took Cheney's place...