Word: coaches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their quarters on Wednesday, in time to see the Columbia-Harvard race, which they expect to follow in their own launch. In this way they will be able to form some idea of the style of rowing which their rivals pursue. Capt. "Bob Cook" will be with them as coach most of the time while they remain at the river. They are still imperfect in their new stroke and will require much attention at his hands. They average at present only about 166 pounds which is over six pounds less than the crew of last year, but that...
...firm a catch as the other men in the boat. He is, however, so well supported by number seven that the bad effects of these faults are reduced to a minimum. Number one has not yet fallen into perfect time with the rest. However, the coach of the crew, Col. Bancroft, assures us that the crew is rowing as fast as last year's crew did at the time of their departure for New London...
...Benson, former coach of the Cambridge crew of England, coached the University crew last Friday. As the launch was again broken down he was carried alongside in the junior shell by a crew composed of the University and Freshman substitutes, of a member of the '79 crew, and several...
...that the men can all get accustomed to each other. Then, after obtaining more uniformity by a few long pulls, they ought to be the fastest freshman crew that has met Columbia within the last four years. The crew rows every day at about six o'clock. Col, Bancroft coaches them from the steam launch, which enables him to get a better view of the men and gives the coxswain abundant opportunity of learning how to steer the shell and to coach...
...Others are sure they are born to stir the world. Others, still, have the spirit of a Swift, who only labored to distinguish himself that he might be used "like a lord," and that the "reputation of great learning might do the work of a blue ribbon and a coach-and-six." Numbers, too, like Charles Lamb, are carried away with the idea that a life of leisure is the great object to be sought after...