Word: crews
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...meeting tonight the Athletic Committee will do well to settle definitely the question of whether the coach or the captain is to select the oarsmen on the University crew. Only through the coach as the highest authority in technical matters can the greatest experience and special knowledge be brought to the helm, and a general confidence and support be restored...
...merits of a question to which it attaches such importance, the CRIMSON would at least take pains to verify the facts advanced by it to support its arguments. When it states that "last year Captain Murray . . . was generally blamed by the rowing authorities for the defeat of the University crew at the hands of Yale" it makes a statement that is as unjust as it is untrue. As a matter of fact no other captain in the past few years has received such whole-hearted support and confidence from the rowing authorities, and no thought was further from their minds...
Concerning the 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...
...coaching of the crew to the older, more mature and experienced eye of the instructor. One has but to name men like Bancroft, Storrow, Lehman and Mr. Herrick in his coaching of the Henley crew to bear out this statement. Captains of crews coached by these men did not lose any of the credit, nor the opportunity to influence, mould and lead their crews. Unfortunately men of that stamp have not always been available and with the recourse to professional coaches it has often become necessary for the captain to shoulder responsibilities which improperly burden him and in some cases...
...Athletic Association has in the last few years, with the aid of the crew managers, taken much of the routine labor from the captain's hands. There has got to come a time when a situation similar to the football organization exists. There has got to be a responsible head, some one of experience and executive ability who cannot only teach the University rowing, but to whom ultimately every decision of importance should be taken. Percy Haughton has filled that place splendidly in one sport. As head coach he has directed a continuous policy for Freshman football and second-team...