Word: crews
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Heeding not a few complaints that have come forth lately, the CRIMSON has undertaken to find who, if anyone, is to bear the responsibility for the 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...
...adverse criticism of the crew does not come from distrust of the present captain or the present coach. The CRIMSON, for one, has the utmost confidence in Coach Herrick as a teacher of oarsmen, and the sincerest faith in Captain Morgan as a courageous and able leader. Through no fault of his own, Captain Morgan is the victim of a long-continued system that has now reached its climax. And there seems to be no friction between the present coach and the captain; they say that they can foresee no cause whatever for conflict between themselves. It is in order...
...following reasons, the supremacy of a crew captain over the coach is injurious to the best interests of the sport...
...other major sports the captain has in practice no authority over the coach. There is no reason to believe tha crew is an exception, since the general principles of administration are the same...