Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...crew situation which you have brought before undergraduate attention, I should like to say that I feel there has been much misunderstanding both on the part of the undergraduates in general and on the part of Captain Morgan and those supporting the supremacy of the captain. The absolute control of the coach does not necessarily mean either the subordination of the captain or a lessening of his influence, nor does it mean the institution of a system of coaching whereby the head coach is to rule, as a despot, roughshod over rowing traditions or over undergraduate ideas. To those...
...have failed at New London. Others have confined themselves to the University crews, have succeeded at New London, but have failed to keep rowing interests in general alive and increasing. The policies of no two consecutive captains have been the same. The extent of control has depended very largely on the individual captain. Consequently rowing interests have fluctuated in years almost unbelievably...
...point which he makes does Mr. Herrick answer the CRIMSON'S main contention,--that it is injurious to have a captain exercise control over the coach...
...glory or the ignominy of this season's University crew. The CRIMSON has hesitated to offer suggestions on the delicate adjustment between the coach and the captain of a major sport, in the hope that Mr. Herrick, like Mr. Haughton, would inaugurate a system wherein the coach takes supreme control...
...seems, however, that the crew policy this year is liable to follow last year's as regards the captain's exercise of authority over the coach. At present the captain has complete control theoretically; it is unfair to saddle him with this responsibility and it is unjust to deny complete authority to the coach, whom the public holds responsible. This injustice can be righted by a vote of the Athletic Committee...