Identifier: harpersboatingbo01davi (find matches)
Title: Harper's boating book for boys; a guide to motor boating, sailing, canoeing and rowing
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Davis, Charles G. (Charles Gerard), 1870-1959, ed
Subjects: Boats and boating
Publisher: New York, London, Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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tically thesame. In 1904 Frederick Colson, the ex-Cornell coxswain-captain and former assistant coach, went to Cambridge forone year to teach Cornells stroke. This also was an un-successful move. The year following, James Wray, the professional single-sculler, was engaged by one of the boat clubs at Harvard,and was so successful that a little later he was made Varsitycoach. He began by teaching all of his pupils to scull,and he still keeps this up. Through his good work thecrimson has beaten Yale five times in the last six races,the last four wins having been in succession. Harvard hasagain struck her gait and is once more on top. After the disappointments of the last few years, Yalehas again made a radical change, and the pendulum of herrowing policy has once more swung back to the amateurgraduate-coach system. James O. Rogers, 98, captain of the 97 foot-ball eleven,afterward head foot-ball coach, and who rowed number fouron the Yale Varsity eight at Henley in 1896, has been made 374
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BOATING BOOK FOR BOYS head rowing - coach. He was a pupil of Cook, and- hascoached several freshman crews. And in this connection it is interesting to note that Yaleis now the only university, with the sole exception ofPrinceton, whose rowing is under the guidance of an amateurcoach. In the chapter on Yale Boating, prepared by KarlKron for the History of Yale College, there is a resume ofthe Harvard-Yale races, republished by the author in theBoat-race Bulletin, of which he was the editor from 1878 to1883. His record has been followed from 1852 to 1883, withsome slight changes and additions. THE RECORD OF HARVARD-YALE RACES FIRST PERIOD—1852-60—IRREGULAR RACES i. 1852, August 3. — Lake Winnipiseogee, Center Harbor, N. H.,2 miles straight pull to windward in eight-oared barges, class of 53.Oneida, of Harvard, defeated Halcyon, of Yale, by two lengths; time about10m. 2. 1855, July 21.—Connecticut River, Springfield, i)4 miles down-stream and return, in barges. Iris (eight-oared)

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