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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tried it on Thursday for the first time, and Captain Cowles expressed himself as well pleased with the boat, which is in every respect satisfactory. The crew is now rowing with the snap and vigor which characterized the victorious eight of '84, and under the watchful eye of Bob Cook the men are rapidly overcoming the defects which seriously marred their work earlier in the season. They will row a little in the new boat every day in order to become thoroughly accustomed to it. They will not pull over the four-mile course in it at full speed, however...
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...Cook is said to have made the following statement in relation to the eight: 'This year's crew is the weakest I have ever seen in college so far as strength is concerned. It is under the average weight. Nevertheless, the men are rowing in much better form than last year's crew, and are the most faithful set of men in training I have ever handled. Harvard has a great advantage over us in her professional coach, her strong, trusting support and the experience she gets from the practice pulls with professional crews. We shall try to make...
Both nines went out in one, two, three order in the second. In the third Brown got their only run of the game. Cook got first on a wild throw by Nichols, stole second, went to third on a missed third strike, and scored on Edgerly's throw. After one man was out, Edgerly drove the ball into left field for a home run. Wiestling got his base on balls, Smith made a hit, and Phillips got his base on balls, but they were unable to score...
...Cook, Yale's boating authority, arrived to-day, and will remain with the 'varsity crew until the New London races are over. In the correspondence that preceded his arrival in this country, Chainey, the English coach, was made to thoroughly understand that he was not employed to give instructions in the British style of rowing. His service would be rather to consolidate this with the American system, taking from each the good that was in them and producing something better than either. He was, moreover, to rig the boat and adapt it to the stroke determined upon, and in other...