Word: crews
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Fall work for the University crew will begin tomorrow afternoon. Coach Wray will have charge of the squad, which will consist of four eights. At the end of the season a three and one-half mile handicap race will be held between the first three crews. The following men should report at the University boathouse tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock: A. T. Abeles, C. T. Abeles, N. L. Anderson, G. H. Balch, J. F. Brownlee, E. K. Carver, T. Chadwick, L. S. Chanler, Jr., W. A. Cleary, T. L. Converse, C. H. Crombie, E. D Curtis, L. Curtis...
Candidates for the dormitory crews will be called out on Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The bumping races will be held on October 18, 19, and 20, making an exceptionally short season of two weeks. After the bumping races graded crews will be made up from the Weld and Newell boat clubs. There will be as many grades as the number of men report will permit. In about two weeks races will be held between the crews of corresponding grades. Individual cups will be given to the winners in each grade. The system is a modification of that used...
...rowing championship. Not only did Coach Courtney's men defeat Harvard, Yale and Princeton in two different regattas, but at Pough-keepsie they won the most thrilling race in years by defeating Columbia in the last one hundred yards. Only once during the year did a Cornell crew suffer defeat. This was in the freshman race, in which they lost to the Columbia youngsters...
...acceptance of the resignation of Coach John Kennedy is taken by Yale men to mean the end of professional coaching. It is stated, however, that the advisory committee may engage Mr. Kennedy to look after the crew men and to assist in the teaching of the stroke, which stroke will be strictly that of "Bob" Cook. A meeting of old Yale oarsmen was held in New York week before last, when plans for adopting the graduate system of coaching were agreed upon. All the ex-crew captains were present from the year 1876, besides many well-known oarsmen. Upon...
...Rodgers rowed as a freshman at Yale in 1895, and in 1896 was a member of the crew that Yale sent to Henley. He suffered from a physical breakdown that year and had to give up rowing. It was this fact that brought him out as a coach of the Yale freshman crews in 1897 and in 1898. He proved a successful coach of the freshman eights. This is the extent of his experience as a rowing coach. Rodgers continued to play football and closed his career at Yale as captain of the football team in 1897. He has since...