Word: coaching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...continued during the remainder of the season it will be impossible for many of our adversaries to reach first base on errors. The batting was the only place where much improvement is possible. Hard work in practice, the various matches during the month, and the advantage of a coach ought to bring this part of the play up to the required standard. Warmer weather and worthier opponents will doubtless attract more spectators than turned out on Saturday. Good support from the rest of the college helps the nine to play well. Large audiences and plenty of enthusiasm for good plays...
...English stroke with undoubted success. Harvard, too, had in the meantime adopted it. In 1876 I left college, and from 1877 to 1880 Yale abandoned the new system, through the mismanagement of those at the head of its boating department, and resorted, as of old, to a professional coach. The result was that Harvard, with the English system, and no professional coach, won the college boating championship successively in 1877, 1878 and 1879. In 1880 and 1881 Yale, through the efforts of William Wood, who was one of my crew, go back to the system I introduced and won easily...
Professional coaches are injurious to college boating: Harvard College never had a professional coach, and yet it has a better average than any college that employed professional coaches. Yale's record against Harvard has been manifestly better when she rowed without the assistance, or rather the disadvantage of professional advice. Had not Yale employed such men the Harvard-Yale record would now be even. The two last races lost by Yale were lost by the every best crews that ever sat in boats, and yet Davis, the man who coached them, is considered the best professional trainer in the country...
...itself to the utmost to repeat the triumphs of last year. Seven of the eight men have rowed in a winning race against Yale and against Columbia. This eight, unsurpassed by any of our previous crews in strength and experience, with an energetic captain and an able and successful coach, may well inspire the friends of Harvard with every hope of success in the coming races. At present the men are rowing in the following order...
...best form of any of the class crews. Their oars fall well together, and considering the fact that there are four new men in the boat, they have made good progress since they began work on the river. On Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays Colonel Bancroft finds time to coach them; on the other days his place is taken by Mr. Perin, stroke of the '83 crew. The sophomores are seated in the following order...