Word: coaching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...beats on record, the crimson leading the blue at the finish by over three hundred yards. As usual, New London was crowded with representatives of both colleges, those from New Haven being largely in the majority. The majority of the betting men seemed to agree with Jasper Goodwin, the coach of the Columbia crew, in the conviction that "there is no living against such a gait as Yale has exhibited at times since she has been here," and the odds offered were largely in favor of the blue. The arrangements for the race were complete in every respect, and promptly...
...their float and paddled over to the starting line, where the Columbia crew, being just at hand, soon joined them. Beside the Goodwin, the Cecile of New London, with a party of newspaper men on board, and Harvard's steam launch, the Sixty-seven, with the crew's substitutes, coach and Vice-President Agassiz of the Harvard Boat Club, were near the starting line waiting for the crews...
...Bancroft will coach both the university and freshman crews at New London...
...been very faithful and regular in their practice, but others, on account of other athletic duties, have been unable to devote much of their time to it. On account of the recent rule of the faculty the cricket team has been unable to secure the services of a professional coach, and for this reason their practice has not been so effective as it might have been. Again, the practice ground is so bumpy that some of the men are afraid of being hit, and this so effects their play that it is a question whether their practice does them...
...temporarily suspending the rule against playing professionals, which is as far as its power extends, and by proposing further to advise its repeal by the board of trustees. Harvard is thus left alone in its position on this question, for even Amherst has permitted the employment of a professional coach...