The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-21
They Will Be Old Captains
-Yale's Policy in Detail.

New Haven, Conn, jan 20.-The Yale
crew coach and the policy that will
govern the coaching for the race with
Harvard next June We're made public
by Capt. Allen tonight Dr. Edison F.
Gallaudet, 93, of the Academic College
faculty, will be head coach and will be
assisted by dozen or more captains
and expert oarsmen who have rowed on
victorious Yale crews for the past de-
cade or more. Bob Cook will not be
back to put the finishing touches to the
crew as he has for years heretofore
The men who will come back from time
to time to assist Prof. Gallaudet are
eight OF them captains of crews, and
the others are stroke oarsmen of unex-
eelled ability. They are Alfred Cowles
90; DR.. John Rogers, 81; G. s. Brews-
ter, 81; DR.. Joshua A. Hartwell, '92 DIR.
5. b. Ives, SO; F. A. Johnson, "a; Rich
ard Armstrong, '95; Payne Whitney. '9S:
George Langford, '97 S; DR.. Percy Boil
ten, 'S5, and James o. Rodgers '9S.
DR.. Gallaudet was stroke on three vic
| torlous Yale crews and is conceded to
! be perhaps the best man that Yale
could secure to take charge of the can
| dictates for the boat. Last year he was
OF material aid to Coach Cook and his
selection at this time is hailed by Yale
graduates and under graduates uniyer-
sally as the right man, all things con-
Sidered.
| Capt. Allen outlines Yale's training
| policy tonight as follows Or Gall
audet will be in control and when the
other coaches come up from time to
time, some for day or two and others
for week or more, according as they
can arrange their affairs he will be in
| position to make clear to them the stage
of development reached, the needs and
possibilities of certain candidates and
the general work of the crew up to that
| stage.
| THAT will give a certain focus in
the coSching, SO to speak. Toward the
end of the coaching some one or two
or the coachers will come on to remain
and put on the finishing touches DR.
Gallaudet is, of course, occupied with
! his faculty duties, and cannot give his
undivided attention to the work, but the
plan outlined, we believe, will attain
the result hoped for.
las to our rowing system, I can only
say that the same stroke and the same
methods that have ruled heretofore
will be maintained, with a few minor
changes. Different points will be en-
| phasized a little more than they have
before been but in the main it will be
the old Yale style of coaching.
las to Mr.. Robert ]. Cook, I saw
him about a week after last summers
race and talked over the matter of
! his return. He said then that he could
not come back this year, as he had last
| year, for he felt it would not be best
After discussing the proposition of his
! putting on the last finish, so to speak,
he said he better not do even thai, for
he had planned a two years trip abroad
and he would carry out that plan. He
added, however, that he would be glad
| to assist me in any other way that he
could"
Captain Allen has hitherto this year
| been in charge of the freshmen crew
squad. When the varsity crew candi-
dates are called out next Thursday, he
will turn this work over to some other.
oarsman. Today he weeded out the
squad of 80 and dropped 20 of them.