Word: coaches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London, June 7.--Following the long workout yesterday afternoon in which the University oarsmen rowed the four miles downstream to the bridge on one stretch and on the way back covered a two mile course at a stroke of 22 in 12 minutes, 15 seconds, Coach E. J. Brown '96 took the men for an easy row downstream as far as the Navy Yard this morning. This afternoon the men repeated yesterday's practice...
...first 1930 eight, will arrive in New London at 3:45 o'clock tomorrow afternoon and will take their initial row on the Thames that evening. Pending the arrival of the 1930 members of the combination eight walters have been substituting and S. C. Heard '25, who will coach the crew, has been acting in the capacity...
...That Coach Mitchell has considerable respect for the prowess of the southerners with the bat is shown in his announcement that Barbee, Harvard's first string twirler who has lost but one game in ten starts, will be on the mound for the University team this afternoon. Barbee went through fourteen long albeit successful innings against Holy Cross Saturday and would, therefore, not ordinarily be expected to hurl today...
...Coach Murphy is expected to try out several shifts in the Blue 1930 boat tomorrow, when Captain Graetzu, who has been stroking the second crew, will probably be put in the first boat...
...long time after railroads became practical for travel there were no provisions for sleeping. People sat up or slept in. the floor filth. Then, in 1836 the Cumberland Valley R. R. of Pennsylvania built some bunks into a second-hand coach. Travelers could use the roller towel, basin and water provided in the rear of the car. It traveled between Harrisburg and Chambersburg, Pa. Later innovations were straw ticks, blankets, cuspidors. Travelers used their carpet bags for pillows...