Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-25
NO CHANGED POLICY
Yale Coaching System to Be
Continued.
PENN's ROWING TROUBLES
Undergraduates Want to Gust Ellis
Ward From Position as
Head Coach.
BY EDWARD r. BUSHNELL.

In spite Of an unsuccessful year upor
the water and only moderate success or
the gridiron Yale intends to continue
without change in the present policy ii
the coaching Of both sports. The rowing
policy for 1913 has already been deter
mined. Not SO much progress has beer
made in foot ball. but at several informa
conferences held by Yale graduates the
consensus Of opinion was that there
should be no departure from the present
methods.
II possible the rowing authorities have
gone even further than was expected il
their determination to have none but
graduate coaches in charge of the crew
James Rodgers. the graduate, who sue
ceeded John Kennedy last year, has re-
signed and it in his place w. A. Harri
man has been selected. The choice OF
Hartman, who is a son of the late rail
road king, was more or less of a sur.
prise. He is still an undergraduates a,
Yale and will not graduate until June
1913.
Harriman's selection is due to desire
on the part of Yale men to thoroughly
test the English system. both as to the
style of boat and the stroke. For one
year Hartman has had charge Of the
Yale freshmen and last spring turned out
fairly creditable crew. He has spent as
much of his time as he could in England
studying the rowing situation and he has
experimental on the Yale youngsters.
However his actual rowing experience is
limited to two years, during which he was
a candidate for the crew.
To outsiders it looks as though Yale is
counting certain defeat First of all the
new system which has been tried since the
retirement of Kennedy has not met with
the approval of all the graduates One
man. in particular, reported to be much
incensed is Bob Cook, who, more than
any one graduate. is most largely re-
sponsible for the introduction Of gradu-
ate coaching and the application Of SO
many English ideas. Cook was retained
in sort of an advisory capacity last
year, but has abandoned the crew alto
gether and announced that he does not
intend to help in the coaching any more.
Yale is the only institution in the coun-
try which has any confidence in graduate
coaching, particularly by youthful oars
been tried at various times by nearly
every college in the country, but all have
returned to the professional as the only
person capable of developing first-class
crew. The graduate or amateur idea of
developing crews has been exploded in
this country, and one would be safe in
predicting that Yale will in time be
forced to abandon the experiment.
According to the ideas Of most practical
oarsmen Yale is pursuing the wrong
policy to develop winning eight by
limiting her engagements to the annual
rase with Harvard. One Of the strongest
criticisms made against Yales crews in
the past was that the poor rowing was
principally due to lack of experience. In
other words, they did not get the racing
practice that their competitors did. One
would think that they would learn a les
son from the experience of Harvard. A
dozen years ago Harvard was losing with
just as much regularity as Yale now is.
The Crimson rowing authorities decided