The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-05-26
WITH YHE COLhEGE kYHLEVES
DOINGS IN TEE FIELD or SPORT
IN EAST AND WEST.
Four New Rowing Coaches In the POughs
keepsie Contingent About
james nice 20 Columbia --The Com
Ing Conference Track Championships

-Four New Rowing C0AcneS IN the touBhS
keepsie acknowledgements AbOut
james Rice % Columbia Ifhe Com
lng Conferences Track Championships.
The coterie Of rowing coaches for the In
situations represented this year at Pough-
keepsie has suffered some changes since last
season. IL was expected last June that
there would be three new faces among the
rowing instructors or the Hudson, There
now are four, although not exactly in the
way expected. Columbia has changed from
| graduate coaohing back to the professional.
james G. Rice has taken the place Of Jasper
7 Goodwin. Wisconsin now has Edward
Harlan Ten Eyck in place Of Andrew NJ.
o'Dea. A third new face Is that OF Richard
Glendon, who has charge Of the Annapolis
crew :
1t was thought last June that Pennsylvania
was going to have a change Of coaches There
was some talk Of going in for graduates.
with r. r. Zane at the head Of a board Of
rowing coaches However. Ellis Ward bag
n new contract, good for several years 10
come. so that is all there Is to the talk Of
graduates Georgetown has replaced Pat
/, rick Dempsey with Murray Russell. q
graduate OF the institution and a former
! varsity crew captain at Georgetown.
The rest of the crew, coaches are the
, SAND. Ellis Ward, Peunsylvania; Charles
E. Courtney. Cornell, aad James A. Ten
! Ecyk. Syracuse. remain in their places.
Perhaps something OF the successes OF these
colleges may be charged to the fact that they
stick to the same men right along. II has
worked olt a littls bit bss:s- with Cornell
| and Syracuse in recent years than with
| Pennsvlyania IL has been some time since
| Ellis Ward has hal q winning varsity crew,
| but his eight last year was at least good
| enough to be second.
Rice, C%olumbia's new coach. is perhaps
explanation enough OF the moderate
triumphs Of this years crew. He is 50
entirely different a personality from Good
win that that is probably the reason why he
has braced up the crew. Goodwin was
mild hammered and rather anenable to
suggestion by the captain OF the crew.
Rice makes the declaration that Il crew
needs only one captain and that the coach
has time TO do all that the captain does
without dividing authority, This re-
sembles 80 much the policy Of Courtney OF
Cornell that IL is refreshing TO see IL in
operation among the local oarsmen.
Rice has opinions Of his own and has
no hesitation in stating them. He is a
big. sturdy man and looks a great deal
like Andrew O'Dea. the old Wisconsin
coach. Rice has had plenty Of experience
as an oarsman. He has been a member
OF some crack four cared crews and he
knows the rowing game from start TO finish.
His experience. too. has taught him how
to rig boats, which is no less than half the
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percentage than that, In fact the skill
with which the Columbia boats were rugged
this season doubtless has not a little to do
with the success of the combinations,
There is another point wherein Rice re-
sembles Courtney. The Cornell coach has
a habit Of taking his new shell about May l
and rigging It once and for all until the crew
has rowed its race The men by that time
are pretty well selected and decided upon,
and once Courtney has made up his mind
the boat is arranged for the men. and stays
that way. Rice has not changed the rigging
Of certain Of his boats for n long time. Some
OF the coaches seem never to be sure just
what Is the proper rigging; After, every
row on the Hudson some OF them can be seen
tinkering with the rig and the result is that
the men 60 into the race not at all sure in
their minds whether they will be able TO feel
right in the boat. That marks the differ
ence between a good coach and a poor one;
ability to rig the boat is all important.
Still a third point wherein Courtney and
Rice are alike is in the preservation Of dis
cipline. IL will be remembered hat the
Cornell varsity eight Of 1908 rowed the big
race without it's elected captain, Pete Fren-
eel. That was for reasons OF discipline.
There was a man in the Columbia crew squad
this year who bad his Sc for rowing who
had an idea that he knew more about what
he ought to do than the coach who gave him
instructions. As q result. he is not on the
squad any more. the reason being ostensibly
that his parents object 10 rowing. That
is a sample Of the Rice discipline. II he had
an idea that the crew would be improved by
'the absence OF Capt, BOYLE, for instance, he
would not hesitate to replace Boyle by a man
whom he considered better.
To many persons II will seem a matter OF
course that a crew coach should be master
in his own boathouse and that what he has
to say should go without question. But to
Columbia men who know how little some
of their coaches really have had TO say IL
is a refreshing thing to learn that there is
a mar at the head OF rowing. Rice regards
his profession as something In which to
take pride. He is, OF course. working for
the money, but he says that that is a secon-
diary Sonsideration; He wants to have a
he done only il he is in absolute control Of
the situation. Rice says that he is prepared
to stand or fall by the results OF dis work,
and he has TO have a free hand.
A characteristic incident came No recently
in connection with the training OF Jack Ryan,
who probably will get a place in the Column
bia eight at Poughkeepsie. Ryan never
rowed before. He has been known as a
football and basketball PLAYER aud high
Jumper and shot ,putter. He lie tall, well
built and strong. He had first TO he taught
| how 10 row. Not unnaturally he was not a
good oarsman at first. Rice, however, was
not disposed to make any excuses whatso-
ever. He said: Here Ia a mar who is a
natural athlete. He can be taught to do
anything. II he fails to become an oars
man it is my fault" Most other coaches
would nave said that Ryan could not be
expected to develop into an oaIsman in one
year, but Rice In not that kind. And. FUR
thermore. while he has confidence in his
| abilities, he is not boastful.
The strongest impression Of Rice Ia that
he is a man with a great deal OF latent
! strength and power. He can command
respect without demanding it. He knows
how TO row and how to teach rowing The
Columbia crew candidates seem TO relish
having over them a man who can and does
make them stand around, and as results
are the best criterion the Columbia coach
Is thus far a success. Those Columbia
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