Norwich bulletin., 1913-07-26
PROFESSIONAL COACH FOR VAIL E
Change Back to Old Crew System Fav-
 ored by Many of Alumni.

Yale men interested in aquatics are at odds over the future plans for coaching the varsity crew The hu- initiating defeats sustained at New London in recent years have caused much bitter feeling among alumni and undergraduates. Just now. under the surface, there is a heated discussion as to the adyisability of continuing the methods employed by Averell liar riman, head coach, who brought over several English experts this year to revolutionize rowing at New Haven.
 MT. Hartman firmly believes that further experiments on these lines will bear fruit, and his friends at Yale have unbounded confidence in him. But other sons of Eli hold the opin ion that the time is ripe for the en- gagement of professional rowing coach who will go back to American ideas in fitting the Yale crew for the annual race with the Crimson
 While Yale's defeat at New Lon don this year was most discoura ging," said a prominent New Haven grad uate yesterday, it cannot be said that the English system of coaching was not a social success. But Yale can not go on suffering defeat year after year. Harvard went through q simi- lar experience years ago when amat- teurs coached the Crimson crews and tried to beat Bob Cook Now liar ward has Wray, a professional coach, who has developed rowing at Cam bridge in the right way. while Yale is struggling with amateurisn
 If Harvard sees nothing wrong in employing Wray, why should Yale hesitate about engaging a profession al All of the crews that rowed at Poughkcepsie this year were coached by professionals and I believe that either the Syracuse or Cornell varsity of this year could have beaten the best eight pared crew in Enfland.
 Vale sees no harm in pafng a salary to Howard Jones to coach the varsity eleven. and Harvard also pays Coach Percy Faughton for his football knoWl = edge Then why shouldn't the Yale navy hire a coach who knows how to develop a winning crew? If Yale had Courtney or Ten Eyck does anybody believe Harvard would win each year with ridiculous ease? Why should Yale consent to make the New London race the occasion of an annual Harvard hol- i6ay7
 '''Fne Cornell stroke is well nigh perfect Why? Because Courtney knows the value of the comparative Iy short body swing and the powerful drive. Ten F1yck taught the same stroke to Syracuse this year and beat Courtney at his own game. The liar ward stroke is a duplicate of the Courtney stroke, with possibly a lew inlpfoVeffi ents. Yale, however, Sacii- fees the big drive for the exhaust qn6 body sWfng, which is typical of Eng fish creFs made up of older and stronger men thsn we have in our American universities.
 Yale has become the laughtng stoels ef the rowing world and Tad1 cal change is necessary. MT. FlaTTi- lnaa has spent much time and money 1 in a laudab1e attempt to bring back tae Biue's prestige. but his efforts 1 have failed For that reason many 1 Yale men, who remember the victor
 io74s crews that crushed Harvard 1r
 years gone by, believe that the time for drastic action has arrived
 B. J. Giannini, rowing coach of the ! New York A. c. is among the pro- | fessienals mentioned as having q l chance for the Yale coaching berth ] But Giannini, it is said. is well satis-
 fled with his present position.