Word: doubtful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...tells them that 'a coach cannot always be performing miracles,' and then accepts 'full responsibility for the disaster.' This is forgetting Mr. Courtney's share in the disaster, for it was his crew that made us row away from Yale so fast. A duel race with Yale would no doubt have decreased the size of the disaster for Yale and increased...
...present rowing season. After almost 30 years of highly successful service as chief of staff of the Cornell navy he is to retire, as his physical condition will not warrant his continuing in charge of the crews as head coach longer than this year. There is little doubt, however, that he will remain high in the advisory councils of Cornell rowing...
...aggregation has been up against some unusually strong nines during the past couple of weeks and has played exceptionally good ball. On Saturday, May 28, it downed the strong Cornell team at Ithaca. The contest was the second of the series, Cornell having won the first, and was in doubt until the fifteenth inning when Barry, the hard hitting shortstop of the Philadelphia team, lined out a beautiful homer after two men were down, winning the game, 5 to 3. On Decoration Day the extra-inning victors were given a set-back by the Tigers in another after-time affair...
...Whether or not Guy Nickalls has done the right thing in ripping his varsity crew to pieces, time alone will tell. He knows his business concerning this Blue crew--or is supposed to--and in the end those adherents of the Blue who are beginning to doubt may find all their misgivings resolved into emotions inspired by a victory over Harvard. The writer's personal idea of the Yale crew was that it needed a certain balance, a certain shifting about--not necessarily a casting out of the men who rowed as regulars at Ithaca. But Mr. Nickalls gained...
...should go. There cannot be the slightest doubt about this. The older men, for whom it is far harder to go, and who are not, under ordinary circumstances, of military age, are going...