Word: boated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five Harvard squash teams will play their initial matches this afternoon in the Massachusetts Squash Racquets Association meet which begins today. Team A of the University squad will play the Harvard Club in Boston, team B will face the University Club here, and team C will meet the Union Boat Club players here. In Class B the Freshmen will play at the Weston Golf Club, and in Class C they will meet Quincy here...
Edsel Bryant Ford's new yacht Sialia was launched at Neponset, Mass. Later this winter he may hoist the red-white-&-blue triangles of the Detroit Boat Club* and sail to southern waters...
Bigger than any of these is the flying boat which Germany's Edmund Rumpler says he is designing. It is to have 10 motors with 10,000 h. p. capacity, accommodations for 135 passengers and 35 crew...
Within the English colleges as distinct from the universities, the coaching is done largely by undergraduates. There are certain exceptions: in rowing, for instance, a former Blue often guides the first boat through the final stages of its preparation for the inter-college races, and the dons occasionally lend a hand in coaching this or that athletic group. But in the selection and management of all college teams the captain's authority is final, and the bulk of the coaching is done by the more experienced men under the direction of the captain. I have heard participants in several sports...
Rowing differs markedly from most other sports here in that the time given to practice and training of necessity far outweighs that occupied in actual competition. It is consequently in rowing that the most highly developed system of coaching exists. The best oars in the college boat club divide up the various crews among them and each carries, insofar as is possible, the same boat through the particular training period in question. On the whole the system works very well. The veteran oarsmen usually know the fundamentals of rowing, as traditionally taught in their college, pretty thoroughly and attain...