Word: coaches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There has been no regular coach, although several old 'Varsity oars have been of great help to the men. The work of the crew has been very much like that of all past. Freshman eights; especial attention being given to general gymnasium exercise during the winter...
...college where the game is played owes the visiting nine a certain degree of courtesy and politeness after the game is over. The non-performance of this duty was painfully noticeable at the close of Wednesday's game. The Yale nine were allowed to go back to their coach without having received the least sign of attention from...
...specific remedy to this evil, I would suggest that a number of students be made a committee to escort the visiting nine back to their coach and show them the ordinary courtesy one from hosts to guests. The men who usher at the games might most conveniently be entrusted with the performance of this task...
...will be very easily accounted for. The Harvard team went to New York the day before the game and stopped at one of the best hotels; each man had a liberal allowance to defray his expenses. On Saturday afternoon the team was taken directly to the grounds in a coach and received with cheers by enthusiastic supporters; after all this expenditure the association will have a balance of over a thousand dollars. Compare this state of affairs with the condition of athletics at Princeton. After some difficulty our association managed to borrow a sum of money. This enabled them...
...possible from professionals who make oarsmanship their means of livelihood? Probably not. Certainly while rowing had a precarious existence at American colleges, and there was no large body of graduate oarsmen on whom to lean for advice and from whom to beg the arduous and ungrateful services of a "coach." it was only human that professionals should be paid to look after the stroke and diet of the crews. Professionals were at least kept out of the boat. There is no record like that of the Brasenose Oxford four in 1824, which contained two college men, a professional...