Word: coaches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thirty-eight, forty or forty-two stroke, and the men who advocate such a course have not carefully considered the matter. A crew should be trained to pull the highest stroke the men are capable of keeping up for the distance they are to row. If I should coach a crew of giants who proved themselves capable of holding a sixty stroke for four miles, I would have them pull it, and not train to pull a thirty-eight stroke, because some winning crew or other pulled that stroke in 1776. In the 1885 race, Capt. Flanders was censured...
...Coach, etc., in N. Y. for Mott Haven team...
...Yale, a large number of candidates for positions on the eleven. The foot-ball men here began work two or three weeks ago, and have been at it, rain or shine, every day since the term began. The University of Pennsylvania has secured the services of a paid coach for the foot-ball season, and expects to give the other teams in the league a hard pull, even if she does not win one or two games,-a result not unexpected by many of the Pennsylvania men. Of Wesleyan, all that can be said is that she has always...
...varsity race. It is the hard and conscientious work of the crew and the untiring efforts of its captain which cause us to put so much trust in the result of the race. Too much praise cannot be given Captain Storrow, who, without the valuable services of a coach and with the rawest material from which to select, has succeeded in getting together a crew of which Harvard need feel no shame, whatever may be its success at New London. Let the crew remember that it is on the water that Harvard has ever looked for success with the greatest...
...stretchers, and after rowing well for a short distance they let up too much. This last fault is being gradually overcome. Most of the men ought to get in somewhat more work with their legs. Eighty-eight has been seriously handicapped by the want of a regular coach; under these circumstances the men deserve much credit for getting into their present form...