Word: courtney
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...NOBLE AND GREENOUGH. Holbrook, Bennett, Cutting, l.e. r.e., H. Hutchins, Lyman, J. Hutchins Lawson, Cooper, l.t. r.t., Sweetser, Lyman Wulsin, Steele, l.g. r.g., Converse, Sweetser Russell, Broomfield, c. c., Grant, Greenough Berenson, r.g. l.g., Warren Burr, r.t. l.t., Weston, Storer Davis, r.e. l.e., De Ford Brown, Bowne, q.b. q.b., Courtney Barr, Hurd, l.h.b. r.h.b., Williams, Whitney Hardwick, r.h.b. l.h.b., Toppan Minot, Bartholf, Warren, f.b. f.b., Whitney, Sigourney
...Cornell crews have been very seriously handicapped by poor weather. Although they had their first work on the inlet on February 22, the crews were only able to get out about twice a week during the whole month of March. In the course of practice during this month Coach Courtney found that he did not have enough good men to make up two satisfactory university crews, and on March 15 he took Kelley and Weed out of the University boat and placed them in the junior university crew at No. 3 and stroke respectively. This junior crew was eligible...
Ithaca, N. Y., May 28.--Today the Harvard crew took a long row up the lake three miles and back, at a slow stroke, accompanied by Coach Wray in Coach Courtney's launch. No sprints or racing starts were tried. The Freshman crew took the same kind of work, rowing four miles in all. The four substitutes from the University and Freshman squads made up a four-oar and went out in one of the Cornell shells...
...prospects of the Cornell crew in the race with the University eight, May 30, were considerably diminished last week by the decision of Coach Courtney to drop from the squad L. W. Gavett '08 and R. W. Weed, Jr., '09, who have been rowing steadily on the Cornell eight all the spring. The resignation of these men, together with that of bow and stroke of the four-oar, was requested on account of the ill-feeling and dissension which has been current among the men all the season. Lately, especially since Koorner was compelled to leave, the first boat...
...same general system were applied to sports at Harvard, there is no reason why Harvard would not have success. It would be a system of amateur graduate coaching, entirely feasible, and would do away with any one man king ship. Yale turns out a Yale football team: Cornell, a Courtney crew. In England there is no difficulty in finding loyal graduates to assist in the development of teams. Why should there be difficulty here...