Word: crews
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...view of the recent agitation at a number of eastern colleges to shorten the four-mile crew race the following extracts from the letters of different captains, managers, coaches and others connected with college rowing, which were gathered by the Yale News; and appeared in an article in that publication which dealt with the subject, are interesting and authoritative. Of the letters received, the number of those which were against the shortening of the race was slightly larger than that of those in favor of the proposed shortening of the distance...
...three miles I do not believe it would lessen the strain on the men as the pace would naturally be more severe over the shorter course and the results would be about the same. I feel very strongly in favor of retaining the four-mile race, as a crew to win must know how to row and cannot rely entirely on slugging. It is the very fact that it is a long grind which makes it so worth while and so appealing to those who delight in a test of endurance...
Captain Denegre, of the Yale crew was also against the shortening of the race. He made the following statement: "In regard to the four-mile race I am in favor of it because I consider it a better test of skill in rowing and coaching, and as a better test of endurance and general ship. In the consideration of this question I think we should place some value in past tradition and in the fact that four miles has been the established distance. The three-mile race is an untried thing. My opinion is that it would develop into more...
...light under a bushel; it remains to be seen whether it is able to develop even a respectable rivalry with the natural interest boys and young men feel in competitive physical exercise. The hero in school or college life today is the captain of the eleven, the nine, the crew. Sometimes it happens that the athlete is a scholar, too--in that case, the kingdoms of the academic world are under his feet, and he basks in the sunny favor of faculty circles and undergraduate esteem as well. The young student is hardly to be blamed if he yields...
...Fall crew was highly satisfactory. Development of the second-string and 1917 men was very necessary to the eight, as a larger percentage of men was lost by graduation in this sport than in either of the other two. The four-oar crew men remaining in college are Sturtevant 15S., number 5, Sheldon '15S., number 4, Low '16, bow, and McLane '16, coxswain. These men are good oarsmen, but on the whole do not quite average up to those who graduated. It seems fairly certain, however, that none of them will be displaced. The fairly strong Freshman eight of last...