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DEAR MR. STORROW-We have carefully considered the reasons given by you in appealing from the decision of the advisory committee on boating in the matter of the employment of Colonel Bancroft. Consideration only the more convinces us of the wisdom of the advice given by the committee on boating, and we therefore request you to discontinue immediately the employment of Colonel Bancroft as coach...
DEAR SIR-At a meeting of the graduate committee on boating, your application for permission to engage Mr. Bancroft as coach has had full and careful consideration. It is the unanimous opinion of the graduate committee that the practice of having a professional or paid coach is inexpedient and detrimental to the best interests of rowing at Harvard, and we therefore strongly advise that this custom be discontinued now and hereafter. We hope you will give the matter due thought, and arrive at the same conclusion we have. Under the circumstances, therefore, we do not approve your employing Mr. Bancroft...
...first place, the Committee, at the suggestion of the Advisory Committee on Boating, object to the further employment of Mr. Bancroft. Further, they object to the employment of any paid coach for the crew. As the second objection covers the first, we can drop Mr. Bancroft's name from the discussion, and consider the advisability of retaining a paid coach. The general explanation offered by the Committee for their course of action, is as follows. Athletics at Harvard must be freed from all objectionable features. The onward march toward professionalism is to be stopped, and a step backwards taken...
...have carefully considered the reasons given by you in appealing from the decision of the Advisory Committee on Boating, and we therefore request you to discontinue, immediately, the employment of Col. Bancroft as coach...
...having the lower end of Jarvis. Porter soon secured the ball and made a good rush down the field, Reynolds was the next to get it, and he secured a touchdown, from which Porter missed a goal. After sharp playing Porter made a touchdown, and again missed a goal. Bancroft in a few minutes made the third touchdown from which Porter again failed to score. Thomas was the next lucky man; he made a free catch from which Woodman kicked a very difficult goal. Just before the end of the first half. Boston was forced to make a safety, making...