Word: squad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year a squad of 19 runners made the trip to Philadelphia, but Coach E. L. Farrell has adopted a training schedule for his charges which will hold all but the two-mile relay team and Alcock in Cambridge...
Since the disappearance of the new launch "Red Top" in the Cape Cod Bay it has been decided to order another speed launch to take the place of the ill-fated craft intended for the use of Coach E. J. Brown '96, head coach of the Harvard University crew squad...
Sophomore, Junior, and Senior teams of seven men each will be chosen from the men who make the best showing in each class. The Freshman team has already been picked, and additions will be made to the first year squad, as well as to the University squad, from the players advancing to the closing rounds of the spring tournament now in progress. Men who have been eliminated in this tournament are eligible to compete in the trials for class teams...
...prize to the victors will undoubtedly have a marked effect in awakening the competitive spirit of ranking scholars, but the honor of representing dear old Harvard or Yale on the literature team can hardly have the same appeal as being on the football squad. We have debating teams, yet they have somehow failed to trail the clouds of glory attached to athletics. It is disconcerting to have the issue confused by a material reward which represents a form of commercialization not quite in keeping with the amateur spirit so zealously preserved in other intercollegiate contests. --New York Evening Post...
With the picking of the first two boats on the University crew squad at the beginning of this week the Harvard oarsmen have started their serious drive for the later season races. Although these two crews are by no means permanent these eights will give Coach E. J. Brown '96 two crews on which to concentrate his attention in preparing for the first race of the season with...