Word: coaching
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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CAPTAIN COOK has been spending a few days in Boston. He speaks very highly of the style in which the Harvard crew is rowing. Mr. Dana, their coach, has recently visited England, and under his training the men show great improvement over their work of last year. They give promise of being an excellent eight, and the contest will undoubtedly be of unusual interest. - Record...
...hoped for from the club crews in the way of bringing to notice and training a supply of oarsmen from which to select candidates for the University, and on this subject much has been written; but, strangely enough, the most vital point has been entirely neglected, viz. the proper coaching of the men in the club crews. They have been taught to row in such bad form and on such wrong principles that, on becoming candidates for the University, they are actually at a disadvantage when compared with the tyros. To obviate this, the captain of the University authorizes...
...hereafter in every issue a statement of the progress made by the candidates for the University crew. The candidates are being worked, to a large extent, according to the principles laid down in Woodgate's "Rowing Manual," and are under the guidance of the captain and Mr. Dana, the coach. The financial condition of the club is such that the strictest economy will be necessary next summer, and there is even danger that lack of money will become an obstacle to our success. For instance, unless a special effort is made, it will be impossible to order more than...
...meet my entire approbation, with the exception, perhaps, of that portion of them which relates to the rowing-weights. I can conceive that a moderate use of the weights, or, better, of the rowing apparatus may be useful, and need not be irksome. Just after the selection of the coach of last season's crew, I sat down and wrote out the very same ideas as now appear from Mr. C.'s pen, intending to send the article to one of the College papers; but I desisted for the reasons, first, that I could not write temperately concerning what...
...wrong, for we hear mention of a new stroke. Perhaps we may get it, but I doubt very much if it will be the stroke, for there is only one. Harvard's faults, or rather her complete ignorance of what the best stroke is, has become a transmittendum. The coach of each year inherits the infirmities of his collegiate boating ancestors. I believe in the complete extinction of the Harvard oar. My fear is that there will be some idiotic idea of improving the stroke by engrafting upon it, and that, should Harvard win the next race, the persuasion...