Word: oarsmanship
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...punish themselves in the contest? And when it came to preparations for a boat-race against a college with which rivalry, if not exactly deadly, was a tradition of long standing, would it be in us to refrain from securing what advice was possible from professionals who make oarsmanship their means of livelihood? Probably not. Certainly while rowing had a precarious existence at American colleges, and there was no large body of graduate oarsmen on whom to lean for advice and from whom to beg the arduous and ungrateful services of a "coach." it was only human that professionals should...
...been due to your introduction and enforcement of correct principles of rowing, and we wish to impress upon graduates the faithful adherence to those principles. Nor is the success of the 'Cook Stroke' to be measured by victories alone. You have aroused throughout the university a general interest in oarsmanship, the goods results of which are seen in the constantly increasing number of students who resort to this mode of exercise." To which Capt. Cook replies: "It must be true, indeed, that the enforcement of correct principles of rowing has had much to do with bringing about the victories...
...Philadelphia, where he remained three weeks, when he received a letter from Captain Cowles, which stated that things were going from bad to worse under Chainey's coaching; that the men were demoralized and discouraged, and that unless something was done right away, the exhibition of Yale's oarsmanship at New London would be a disgraceful one. He came on to New Haven and found that all the criticism that had been made upon the demoralized condition of the crew was true, and that Chainey was thoroughly incompetent. He advised, therefore, his discharge and the employment of another...
There is a Harvard colony in Lake county, California. These graduates are devoted to grape growing. The San Francisco Chronicle says that the native's look with wonder upon the oarsmanship of the Cambridge colonists...
...captain of the '88 crew. It is quite likely that one or more of these men will take seats in the boat. '88 has shown up some very good men, and if they fail in getting on the 'Varsity, it will be no fault of their's, but superior oarsmanship in others. The freshmen also have their representative. Pfeiffer, '89, is a large strong man and bids fair to become a good oarsman. The men are still at work on the water and will row there as long as the Charles remains free from...