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...Herrick's statement--his third point--that "college sports are for the undergraduates and should be managed, so far as possible, by them,"--that is exactly the point of the present discussion. Undergraduates apparently object to the manner in which the crew captain has exercised the coach's powers, and as it is their sport, their voice should be heard...
...come forth lately, the CRIMSON has undertaken to find who, if anyone, is to bear the responsibility for the glory or the ignominy of this season's University crew. The CRIMSON has hesitated to offer suggestions on the delicate adjustment between the coach and the captain of a major sport, in the hope that Mr. Herrick, like Mr. Haughton, would inaugurate a system wherein the coach takes supreme control...
...following reasons, the supremacy of a crew captain over the coach is injurious to the best interests of the sport...
...captain is the more efficient director of the sport, it is absurd to employ a coach...
...CRIMSON believes that the time has come when the Athletic Committee should by vote designate the coach in every major sport as the absolute director of the squad. If the Athletic Committee will say that the coach and not the captain is responsible and in complete charge, the Committee will follow the logical tendency of the Harvard system; will remove from any coach the embarrassment of asserting his authority; will lift from every captain the burden of such onerous responsibility, and will probably accomplish great good for the University crews of future years...