Word: coaching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...working very hard. In the Harlem regatta they defeated the "Dauntless" crew and are consequently very confident of victory over Harvard. The men have been in training five months altogether-three months in the gymnasium and the remainder on the water-under the supervision of their coach, W. B. Peet. Three well-known Columbia rowing men, Professor J. P. Goodwin, Prof. J. H. Amringe, and Mr. R. C. Cornell, have taken considerable interest in the crew and have given suggestions from time to time. The crew is now rowing daily on the Thames and on Sunday they take...
...finish. The back work is ragged. The time is bad. The men are very strong, but they do not get in their work together. Mr. R. C. Watson and Mr. Harry Keyes have been out with the crew a few times, but they have had no regular coach...
...freshmen in preference to that from Yale, since it has seemed advisable to row but one race. The men, sixteen in number, have been training hard in Wood's gymnasium since January 1. Last Monday, for the first time, they took the water, under the direction of their temporary coach, C. K. Beekman, '89. Little attention is given at present to speed, and the men are busy learning how to handle the oars and practising the body swing, There are two provisional crews now rowing, one composed of candidates from the School of Arts, the other from the School...
...Davis, '89; No. 6, Tilton, '90; No. 5, Finlay, '91; No. 4, Markoe, '89; No. 3, Trafford, '89; No. 2, Carpenter, '88; bow, Storrow, '89 (captain). The substitutes are Gorham and Perkins. Some member of the governing committee is with the crew each afternoon, and does the coaching. The new English pair-oar usually accompanies the crew with another coach and the substitutes. The crew has rowed so little thus far that the work is very rough and no estimate of their rowing ought to be made as yet. There are but two men in the boat who have rowed...
...flats. The freshmen got off first and failed to entertain the spectators quite as much as has previously been the case. It is rumored, however, that they rehearsed their performance in the morning in pair oars. Eighty-nine was second off with Mr. Keyes, '87, as coach. Ninety followed next, and '88 next with C. F. Adams in the coxswain's seat. The day was disagreeable, there being a high moist wind from the south-east, but the river was high and almost clear of ice, so that the rowing was very satisfactory...