Word: platts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Norton, who was captain and stroke of last year's Freshman eight, will hold his present captaincy only until the return of Geoffrey Platt '27, captain elect of this year's University crew. At present Platt is ill at his home in New York and probably will be unable to row for about two weeks...
...will be dropped to the B squad next week, leaving four instead of five boats in the first group. Each of the A crews which is retained will then elect a captain, in spite of the fact that this arrangment of the crews is not at all permanent. Geoffrey Platt '27, captain this year of the University crew, will captain the boat in which he rows...
Three oarsmen, Captain Geoffrey Platt '27, W. G. Saltonstall '28, and Oliver Ames ocC., veterans of last year's Yale race, are back this year. Besides these men there are promising candidates from last year's Freshman outfit and the second boat...
...bludgeon. At the beginning of this century, when Theodore Roosevelt was being hornswoggled out of New York politics into the obscurity of the U. S. Vice Presidency, the administration of New York City was noisome. Where Tammany Hall did not control, the gangs of Senator Thomas C. Platt (1833-1910) took graft. Mr. Cutting, then an obscure businessman in Manhattan's financial district, tried to fight the bosses, got little public aid. Obdurate, he took the presidency of the Citizens' Union and organized a "Fusion Ticket." An honest, upright man, he used the tactics of corrupt bosses...
...Captain Platt, the first speaker, refused to make any predictions. "A crew season contains too many turns of fortune to make any phrophecy justifiable," he said. "We are going to be up against crews with experience, and against well-bred rowing systems: most of our men are inexperienced, and our coaching system is as yet untried. Usually at these meetings the captain talks about beating Yale. But the Yale race is a long way off. That is not the important thing at present. The main thing needed now at the establishment of a new system, is confidence and a spirit...