Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-14

nsssd the rslus Of far rowine As ume
vert Or u1is csndiucn necams uorss ana
worse y Vas not Until Rics isHaed h1s
ntmat1m. in zhicb ne vas backed ur.
b. Tire directors Of tire rowing cluh. that
sumsthinE IKE the ordirarv su1rad o. men
eurned our fer the boats.
At Psnnsyivania ths situation entirety
different There. althouEh ne graduates
sser to BE- very sirens for ETis ward
that same spirit dos not appear 70 have
usEsn verv firm hold On the u~nderrraru-
stes- And the u-nderErs1uafes ars AFTER all
the qnes who make up the crews ellis
art prestige was gained br three re-
markabie crews In 1EE 1sq and Isn they
were exceptional men we roued for Penn
sTiranis e. that time and given eiEht such
men simoE any one could have made a
crew o. them
In any event It vas Ellis WARDS Eood
fortune to have these eiEhf men in his
college ard nor a. Wisconsin or Cornell.
However. since then Pennsylvania has been
unfortunate in its crews They have
fa1ed 70 show anything Ike the STYLE this
wonderful collection Of eight men DID. and
the results have been that Psunsylvania
ndsrgr7duates have become aiscuuraEed.
II the condition cannot be blamed on Ward
it certainly must be the fault q the stu
dents. and last years Pennsylvania crew
vas the best OF veteran material four 81
the men having rowed three years and the
other four having rowea two years. II
was y crew not unlike that campus conec-
tion that ward once had. and * was
Thought because Of this resemblance that
PsnnEyivania might DO well but those who
watched the Pennsyixanla crews At work
say they were rowing a stroke which was
not the SORT Of thing on which to 20 rour
miles
OFF Years for M~iehsE.n.
In = usosnf number Of the Michigan
Aiumnus is discussed the advisabnity Of
having Michigan return 10 the conference
Attention is called to the fact thar in NBch-
tEaa's athletic affairs there are two raets
which are Of almost equal prominence
One Is Michigan's recent W5rhdrawal from
thR conferences ard also irs recent general
failure IN athletes Because these thinrs
are about equal in importance and are put
side ky zde. most persons are Hseiy 10
assume thar one Is the result OF the other.
The Michigan paper taxes the view that
tkis Is not necessarily 80. because Micni-
gan Hasv merely be in q stump. such as
occasionally hits colleges in athletics.
SEINE Of the biggest have had a long series
Of CT years. FROM the very first the Mich
iEan alumni publication has been opposed
TO the breaking of OF relations with the
conference. and now the desire TO return
~ expressed even more strongly BY the
pubiicsuon- The reasons for the return
are not at all concerned with the lack OF
EncoesG- but merely because IT lie believed
tEat Michigan belongs IN the conference
geographically and IN other ways.
The Allmnus is opposed 10 blaming
sry-hing on Coach Tost because. although
the feeling is against professional cozch-
ing the publication Is very much IN favor
q him If there must be a professional
coaGh- A little rap - taken at the So
called graduate coaching system we do
not SO how q graduate system could be
i-nsEguraned successfully under present con-
citiOnE- As followed NJ several eastern
schools the gradnare coach is more a name
than a reality The professional coach
happens 10 be a graduate Of the unfver-
sity or - fhe associate Of a crowd Of
pht2anrhrOpic alumni assistants similar 10
The alumni who helped Mr. Yost last szEE.
In other words. we are inclined to believe