Word: crews
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...letter has recently been received from Samuel M. Felton '16, crew manager, by Freeman Mosher, who has been the engineer of the coaching launch "John Harvard" for many years. Felton went to France as a lieutenant in the engineers in September of last year and is serving there in that capacity in construction of roads and railroads...
...quoting one of our athletic heads, that interest in rowing here was entirely negligible. Judging by numbers, this is doubtless true. But it is obviously hard to get men out during the winter to row on the monotonous machines when there is small prospect of there being any crew worth while making. Everybody says that during war time it is the duty of the colleges to keep the maximum number of men at athletics in order to improve their physical condition. By dropping intercollegiate athletics so suddenly the colleges have gone a long way towards keeping the minimum number interested...
...Haven, members of the Board of Control have stated that there is no chance of holding the usual dual track meets, although they hope to have their freshmen meet the University and Princeton yearlings in track games. They also hope that crew races can be arranged between the three colleges...
...need to have coaches drawing enormous salaries, nor advertising campaigns to attract crowds of thousands. We simply desire to play in a contest with teams which are like our own. Baseball and possibly track could be dragged out along informal lines, but to try to have an informal crew would be the heighth of absurdity. Two facts argue strongly for intercollegiate games. The first is that the President of the United States and the leading men of the War Department advocate them. Second, the colleges which have maintained an intercollegiate system have not shown that their patriotic fervor or their...
According to a statement in the Princetonian, Yale will have formal teams in baseball, crew and track this spring. This new decision was made by the advisory committee on athletics, of which Professor Robert N. Corwin is chairman. The committee decided some time ago that athletics would be conducted on an informal basis, as was football last fall, but as a result of many conferences within the past few weeks, the policy has been altered...