Word: coachly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expect a gradual attrition among those who are now on the squad" said Coach Leavitt, "so that by spring there will be only enough men for six light and six heavy crews. Essentially, we now have the men who will supply our varsity material in coming years...
Removal of the 16-oar training boat from active use today symbolizes, in effect, the end of the first stage of training for the Yardlings and of the weeding out process among crew candidates. Today freshman coach Bill Leavitt has posted in the window of Leavitt & Peirce a list of those rowers and coxswains who survived the final fall crew...
Despite the lack of a regular lightweight coach, training of both experienced and inexperienced squads is apparently going satisfactorily, the freshman coaches concur. Because of the low salary offered a lightweight coach, some members of the freshman staff seem to feel that volunteer graduate coaches may offer the only practical solution to the problem of training lightweight crews...
Since veteran coach Bert Haines retired in 1952, the HAA has been able to attract competent graduate coaches for the lightweights when necessary. Volunteer Dick Lincoln '53 was quick to point out that under graduate coaching Harvard developed the champion lightweight crew that went to Henley last year...
...year may bring problems for the freshman crew, however. Of the three volunteer coaches--McKursie, Lincoln, and Brown--the latter two cannot coach in the spring...