Word: coaching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...paid coach for the crew forbidden...
...Bancroft as an oarsman is well known. Whatever success Harvard has had for the last eight years in boating is wholly due to him. He has devoted much of his valuable time, year after year, to coaching various crews. With what success this has been done is readily seen by consulting the record of Harvard since 1876. Mr. Bancroft is a graduate of the college, has occupied and does now occupy important positions in public life. The undergraduates are enthusiastically in favor of him as a coach, as is every man who has to do with boating in the college...
...committee which now begins to sit like a high court of chancery, and issue injunctions against every department of athletics, now asserts on the argument of the Advisory Committee of the graduates, that Mr. Bancroft cannot be had as coach for the crew...
...University crew will continue to row daily upon the river as long as the weather allows. The crew is now without a regular coach, depending upon the captain and the coxswain for instruction...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: -Leaving to be discussed by others, the question of the justice, right or expediency of the recent action of the Athletic Committee in dismissing Col. Bancroft from the position of coach of the crews, I wish to call attention to what seems to me to be strange inconsistency on the part of the Committee. Last year, when the question of having a paid director of field athletic sports was under discussion, the Athletic Committee of the Faculty announced, as I understand the matter, that if only a man like Col. Bancroft could be found to take charge...