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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This announcement was made after a conference with J. C. Rice, the coach. It was decided that any attempt to maintain a crew with the small number of men now practicing would be a useless expense and unfair to the students and graduates who have aided in paying the debt outstanding from last year and raising money for this year's crew...
...start was made in the fall, there being no practice until late in November. Since then the greatest number of men to report has been twenty-two, not enough to fill three boats, and the number has been gradually decreasing...
...series bears witness to the increasing desire of the undergraduates to participate in intracollegiate athletics. Last year the Faculty deplored the great interest shown in intercollegiate sports to the exclusion of contests within the College, because the latter were less exacting and offered opportunities for exercise to a greater number of men than could play on the University teams. But when over 125 men take part in a minor sport series after a particularly interesting year of intercollegiate contests, this attitude seems to be unfounded. Scrub basketball, dormitory track and rowing, and Leiter Cup baseball are becoming more and more...
Spring rowing at Yale has now been in progress for several days and at present 13 squads of candidates for the first boat are working daily, the largest number in years. Of the freshmen there are 11 squads working on the machines. Rowing in the tank has been superseded altogether by practice on the machines, and the university squad is expected to be on the water very soon. Two new English boats, similar to those which Harvard has, have been received and will be given an early trial...
Another change is the resumption of the Southern trip during the Easter vacation, which was abandoned in 1908 in favor of the plan of keeping the team in New Haven for practice. The number of games with professional teams has been increased since last year from...