Word: coaches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEAR SIR-I am requested to inform you that, by vote of the committee on athletics, no person will be allowed to train, coach, or otherwise assist the university or class crews without the written approval of the graduate committee on boating...
...question whether we are to have a professional coach for the crews during the coming year has been under discussion for some weeks, and a lively correspondence has been carried on between the advisory committee on boating, the athletic committee, and the captain of the university crew. It was at the request of one of these parties that the CRIMSON has said nothing on this subject; but now that the facts are common property there can be no reason why they should longer be held back. The following letter, the latest of the series, explains itself...
...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...
...statement that there will be no professional coach for the crews during the coming year is, as yet, only a rumor...
...surely, that cannot occupy all his time. In the light of a suggestion, therefore, for we do not presume to interfere with Mr. Lathrop's plans, we propose that, by a careful study of foot ball as it is played here and at other colleges, he fit himself to coach our teams. Without playing himself, he can become a perfect coach. He will then be able to relieve the captain of a great deal of work, and, what is of the most importance, to hand down a knowledge of the game from class to class. Foot ball will then...