The New York herald., 1879-12-24
COLLEGE BOATING.

YALE cREw-THEIR CONDITION, AGE, HEIGHT,
WEIGHT, TRAINING AND PROSPECTS.
Yales defeat last year. the action of her graduates
and the promotion of Rogers the captsincy Of the
crew have co-operated to give her boating more in
terest than has been centred in it at any time since
Captain Cook its impulse and source Of energy.
For the irst time in tho recollection Of any under
graduate the have done good. honest work dur
ing tho winter term and have rowed clear up to the
Christmas vacation. and part of the time under the
direction of Mr. Fred Wood. tho COACH who has
brought about several reforms It is popularity of
college policy that little ia said about this work
in college prints at any college when work
is really being done; but that Yale is working
harder than usual is well known to all interested In
boating matters who frequent the vicinity Of the
Yale boathouse. 1t ia matter Of conjecture in that
locality as to what Harvard is DOING and it is not
unfair to say that 1t Is currently disbelieved that
Hsrvsrd's statements about doing little truth.
Last year." say the Yale boatmen 'it said that
Bancroft and Schwartz and Crocker ct al. wouldn't
In the Harvard crew. because they couldn't row
in England. They trained. however. for the English
contest, which expected ~? and by . rare COIN
cidence (?) when June arrived oil the old crew.
substantially the old crew, that had faced Captain
Collin far back as 1877 were ready to and did
Yale" College boating is much matter Of dplo-
later.
Yale has seventeen mon at work as compared with
about the same number last year during the latter
half Of the winter term. The number last year by
March had been thinned down to eleven. the men
being Thompson. Rogers Taft. Hyde. Keller. King.
Fuller. Collins, Briggs Storrs and Eaton. Her can
didates now working are Rogers, Fuller. Storrs,
Collins and Patterson. Of the crew of last year;
King 1.-THE probable new stroke). Guernsey. Briggs.
Folsom and Hull. who worked for the last
year. and Spencer. Smith. Rogers. Linthicum and
Vernon. who are new men to university rowing.
The first Ave men are favorably well known. George
Bliss Rogers. of Lexington. Mass. captain of the
Grew. pulls this season for the third time in
the university boat. He the giant among
the exceptionally large crew Of '79. and was
might claim the honor Yale men call Rogers prob
ably the best man they have had for some years He
ems movement at Yale. A wonderfully bard worker
ho Is OF physical gifts and has inspired
the college with groat confidence IN his methods.
He heartily endorsed the idea Of the supervisory
graduate athletic committee and has shown himself
more liberal than some predecessors in bis willing
The keynote of his creed is. II will ask NO man to
do what I viii not do myself" Unlike Thompson.
ginning Of the term that he wanted boating
men to give all their time to boating.
gain boating inowiodge and skill. He advocated
Also the idea, new 10 Yale, but old to Harvard,
OF having two eights in the water-"thst the crew
at New London may not find themselves side Of
another eight tor the first time. and be liable to
suffer fright or something like it." He has not yet
had two eights ahost but pair-oar practice tubbing)
has given the extra men sufficient work. Fuller
will be recollected as last years stroke and he
was then to the boat. It Is justice to him to
say that the stroke he set the result of q semi
compromise between the captain and coach in some
respects though 1t was not as rapid as that pulled
In practice.
Patterson was now man last year and q very
strong one. Storrs and Collins well thought Of
last season and arc working hard this. OF the new
material. under which head may be roughly grouped
those who trained but not the and
those who training for the nrst time it may DO
said tnat 1t Is well to wait before judging them.
After work in the gymnasium they will get fairly at
work rowing again in tine spring. and will show to
better worse advantage, as the case may be. They
arc green oarsmen, with the exception Of two
three, and their chief recommendation is pluck.
thusiasm aud Whatever degree of aptitude Captain
Rogers may have discovered The following table