Word: coaching
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Captain Stevenson will coach the crew, and a more earnest coach Yale has not had for many a day. It is believed that "Bob" Cook will look after their training, and ex-Captain John Rogers will also render valuable assistance. There is much valuable material this year in the freshman class, and in the recent rushes they showed that there was plenty of grit and muscle. The members do not propose to take a "back seat" if they can help it. Many of them already give promise of being exceptionally good oarsmen, and they are willing to work. They have...
...fact, has in most cases rowed only one year in the university crew. That such a man should know all that is to be known about rowing is not to be expected, and that the crew should be beaten if Yale has an old and experienced oarsman to coach them is not to be wondered...
...success. Clearly it is because at Yale the captain of the 'Varsity crew is not expected nor allowed to be responsible for all things pertaining to his crew and its management. He is not called upon to do the work of two men-to row in the boat and coach his crew at the same time. Neither is he left to choose his men or assign them their places in the shell. But has not that been the case here for three years, or perhaps longer...
Peet, the coach of the Columbia crew is reported to have said that this year's 'Varsity crew is fully as strong as that of last year...
...caught the stroke as well by any means as they did last year, though of late there has been a rather marked improvement. They go to New London to-morrow, and Bob Cook goes with them. He has been up here for four of five days, not to coach the crew, for Bolton, '86, is the coach, and Cook refused to interfere with him, but to look on and give advice whenever it is wanted. A most pronounced feeling of hope has spread through the college since his arrival...