The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-07-16
POSTMASTER AND OARSMAN
JUDGE BENNErrA AS MEMBER OF
4 CHAMPION CREW.
Back IN the Days Of % and 'ss, whsn
Harvard Wasn't In It-PersOnnel OF
Famou. varsity Crews.

Harvard Wasn't In It-PersOnnel OF
Famous Varsity Crews.
POSTMASTER d. B. Bennett" says the
Hartford courant. was reminded of
old college days yesterday, when his
attention was called to an article in the
July Outing on College Boating in the
Sixties The article is illustrated by a
group picture of the famous Yale var
sity crew Of 1864, two members of
which are not unknown in Connecticut,
Norris w. Seymour Of Bridgeport and
Judge Bennett. The crew, according to
the magazine label. is that of '65, but
Mr.. Bennett says that It is the crew Of
the year before, as it has the picture OF
Mr.. Seymour, who was in the crew OF
90 but was succeeded the next year by
Isaac Pierson.
/ The crews of "a and ,65 had for their
tainer BILLY" Wood of New York, and
he kept them hard at work, but the
hard work was justified. as neither
crew lost race. The Yale Harvard
crew were then rowed at Lake Quinsig-
amond, Worcester, Mass, and Harvard
was easily beaten both years by the
Yale crew. Yale defeated Harvard
three times in the two years, and one
year following up its victory in the I'M
tercollegiate race by winnings in the
citizens regatta the next day. both
crews entering in the latter race. and
according to Judge Benefits recollec-
ton, the other entries withdrawing,
leaving the college boys to fight their
fight over again. However, Harvard
| failed to regain her lost laurels
The crew of "a had besides Judge
Bennett and Mr.. Seymour, who gradu-
ated in 1866, Wilbur r, Bacon, who
graduated in 1866. Bacon was the
stroke oar and he was the moving spir-
it, his leadership causing the crew to
be known as the Wilbur Bacon crew.
Bacon graduated from the Columbia
Law cchool in 1867, and was afterwards
located in New York, but died in 1900.
! Louis Stoskopf was another member
of the crew. He graduated in 1855 and
afterwards studied medicine at Column
bia and Rush Medical college. He was
! still later a successful physician IN
/
4 w. Scranton, afterwards a man OF
prominence in Scranton Pa, a gradu-
ate of IS, was the bow Of the crew.
The other member Of the "a crew was
Edmund Coffin, who graduated in '66
and afterwards studied law at Column
bia, then taking up practice in New
York. Both Scranton and Conn are
1 living The next year Seymour retired
/ and Isaac Pierson, member Of the
class of '66, was added to the crew.
He became a clergyman and went as
\ missionary to China. He is believed to
live in Medford, Mass
Judge Bennett, who now weighs
about one hundred and eighty pounds,
4 weighed about the same when In coli
lege that is, when he was not In train
i ing. In the picture, which was taken
when the men were trained down. he
looks pretty thin and he says that he
lost about twenty pounds when n
4 training. He spoke last night Of the
methods Of training in those days The
big races came later than now--the last
of July. The men began training In
4 the winter and at the start took daily
walks of two miles and came back on
] the run. When they got so far along
Il as to take to the boats they took a
short row in the morning and long
one in the afternoon, the latter some
times being for ten miles. OF course
there was work in the gymnasium. but
4 the appliances were not perfected as
they are new and after getting into
4 the boats most Of the work was on the
/ water.
The Yale crews of "a and IS weren't
the only famous ones in which there
was Hartford man. The crew Of So,
which was too much for Harvard, had
Rev. Joseph H. Twichell. OF 50, and
Major Charles H. Owen Of 80.