Word: crews
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...cricket teams are the only ones in Cambridge that have out-and-out professional coaching (though it must be remembered that in cricket as in other sports the captain performs many of the functions of the American coach). But there are several features of the coaching of both varsity crew and varsity rugby teams, to take the most prominent examples, which would generally, I think, be more closely associated in our minds with a professional than with an amateur regime. The purely amateur, or to be more accurate, self-coaching stage of such sports as varsity rowing and rugby comes...
...from most other sports here in that the time given to practice and training of necessity far outweighs that occupied in actual competition. It is consequently in rowing that the most highly developed system of coaching exists. The best oars in the college boat club divide up the various crews among them and each carries, insofar as is possible, the same boat through the particular training period in question. On the whole the system works very well. The veteran oarsmen usually know the fundamentals of rowing, as traditionally taught in their college, pretty thoroughly and attain a large measure...
...University squad, working under Bert Haines, comprised four crews made up largely of oarsmen who have had experience on minor crews at Red Top. Only two members of last year's first crew were not in the graduating class: Captain Lawrence Dickey '30 and M., M. Johnson '31; who rowed three and five respectively against Yale last June. M. R. Brownell '30, jayvee captain last season, and C. C. Mason, Jr. '30 of the 1928 first crew were the only other "H" men on the squad...
...mile stroke to fill the vacancy caused by the graduation of James Lawrence, Jr '29. The out standing candidates are P. H. Watts '31, J.E. Lawrence '32, S. W. Swaim '32, and R. W. Pearson '31. Watts rowed two in his freshman eight and last year stroked the first crew against Navy and Tenn and the jayvees against Yale Lawrence stroked the combination crew two years ago. Swaim was stroke and captain of his Freshman crew and last year stroked the University against Tech and Cornell and rowed bow on the second University against Yale Pearson stroked the combination crew...
Starting with nine crews, Coach F. R. Sullivan '27 reduced his squad to six 150-pound crews, four of which raced in the Basin on November 8, R. R. White '32 of last year's Freshman lightweight crew winning handily. There is plenty of material on this squad, seven of last year's American Henley champions bolstered by the members of the 1932 crew that defeated Yale and Tech with ease...