Word: coaches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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...
...action of the Athletic Committee in forbidding the employment of a paid coach, seems to be unwarranted and unwise. To make good this statement, we shall first give the Committee's reasons for their action, and then our reasons against it. The considerations influencing the Committee will be stated as fully as they could be ascertained in an interview with one of the Committee...
...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...
Their specific reasons were as follows: 1. The annual expenses of boating incurred by the students are already too large, and are increasing yearly. One method of curtailing the expense is by forbidding the employment of a professional coach...