Word: oarsmen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...departure from the plans of previous years. James O. Rodgers '98, who will serve as head coach, will give his services absolutely without compensation. He will lay out his work very much after the way graduate coaching is conducted in England. His plan will be to mould the oarsmen along certain lines which will be a well-defined style of graduate coaching, so that the work, entirely amateur, may be continued from year to year just as football coaching has been done with uniform success for many years...
...morning and afternoon both eights went up stream about a mile and a half, padding the whole distance. In the afternoon they were given a brush for half a mile, the university crew winning by half a length. No changes were made in any of the crews. today the oarsmen were taken for a sail on the Sound on the steam yacht "Christobald...
...Union Boat Club crew has been rowing daily in the Basin during the last few weeks. The crew is composed entirely of former Harvard oarsmen, with the exception of R. A. Wodell 1L., who captained last year's Yale crew. W. Hains, an English sculler who has recently come to this country for the purpose, is acting as coach. It is expected that the crew will race for the Stewards' Challenge Cup at the American Henley on May 27, in which case it will meet the University second crew...
...members of his crew. In every boat there are men who take part in fall rowing as a serious step toward a place in the University or Freshman boat. The irregularity of certain men bears most unjustly upon these men, as every shift and change retards their development. The oarsmen who take the dormitory rowing practice as a voluntary exercise should bear in mind that they are unfair to their crew-mates individually and collectively when they fail to report...
...little good material in the freshman eight and university four of last year. Coach Kennedy, evidently believing that Harvard had won for the last two years by developing men of greater physical strength and weight than his men, began early in the season to look for some heavy oarsmen...