Word: crew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upper class candidates at 5 o'clock tomorrow in the Smith Halls Common Rooms. Freshman rowing will be initiated when all 1930 aspirants will be called together tomorrow night at 7 o'clock in the same place. A call for Sophomore candidates for the position of Second Assistant Crew Manager was also issued last night by Manager C. H. Weymer '27, and the first meeting will be held at 1.05 o'clock tomorrow at the H. A. A. The competition will be eight weeks long and no previous experience is required of candidates...
...There will be no University eight picked this fall," declared Coach Brown former class crew mentor, who was recently appointed to succeed to the position of head coach, in speaking of the rowing situation yesterday, "and we intend to give every man who reports for crew this fall an opportunity to thoroughly grasp the fundamental principles of pulling an oar before there will be any definite classification of the boats. I want a chance to size up the men who report for practice, and in order to do this will pick even crews and will keep changing the lineups...
...Freshman crew, Lacrosse base, ball and soccer squads will not get under was on Monday, but will probably hold their organization meetings later on next week. Crew will probably be the latest start off to its start, the launching of the first Freshman shell not being locked for until a week from Monday...
...appointment recently of Edward J. Brown '14 as head coach of the University crews gave the lie to the rumors that last spring and this summer predicted a violent upheaval on the banks of the Charles and envisaged the next Harvard coach as a "new" man, and probably one from some distant state. In cleaning up the crew situation, Director of Athletics William J. Bingham '18 did not find it necessary to leave the old system; and the naming of Brown as head coach is more in the nature of a promotion than of an appointment...
...head coachship has come to Brown after 20 years' association on his part with Harvard rowing. He joined the coaching staff in 1907 and has had some part in the tutoring of Crimson oarsmen ever since. At first he had the dormitory and college club crews in the fall and the club and two class crews in the spring. In 1913 he took over all class rowing, which has been his field until now, except for brie assignments, as in 1924 and last spring, to help whip the second University into shape for the Yale regatta. The victory...