Word: crews
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Congratulations are extended to Captain Nash and Captain Morgan of the nine and crew respectively. Both have been elected to lead at a critical' period--during a change in the coaching system of their organizations--and both are well qualified to lead at this time...
Harvard has justified this individualism. At the military training camp at Plattsburg, N. Y., about one-third of the thirteen hundred rookies are Harvard men. These men have not hesitated to subject themselves to a discipline more rigorous than training for the crew. They have responded more fully than any other group of citizens to intelligent appeal...
Since the close of College last June, captains have been elected in two major sports, baseball and crew. Henry Lamb Nash '16, of Newton, will lead the University baseball team next year. Nash prepared at Newton High School, where he played on the baseball and track teams. He was captain and first base on the Freshman nine which defeated Yale 1916, 7 to 3. For the past two seasons Nash has played first base for the University and has always been among the heaviest hitters and surest fielders on the squad...
David Percy Morgan, Jr., '16, of New York, was elected captain of the University crew for 1916. Morgan prepared at Middlesex and captained his Freshman crew. In 1914 he rowed on the second crew which won the Grand Challenge Cup at the Henley regatta--in England, and last spring rowed number 2 in the University boat...
...brightest achievement of recent years in Harvard rowing was the signal victory of our Henley eight which captured the Grand Challenge Cup in the last regatta for that prize held on the Thames. The other entrant which had won its way to the finals was the Union Boat Club crew, composed of Harvard graduates. The former eight was coached by Robert F. Herrick '90, the latter by William Haines. A pair better fitted to work in harmony and effectively direct the University's rowing policy could not be found...