Norwich bulletin., 1915-06-25

, the Yale eight that defeated Cornell seven days previously
 There has been little change in the coaching system or personnel since last year. Guy Nickalls, the English oarsman, devoted last autumn and this
 spring to instructing the Yale crew
 candidates, while Jim Wray has held sway at Cambridge and Red Top this season as for 8 number of years past. Nickalls has followed the English sys- tenn of selecting oarsmen early and not changing the combination unless abSo- lutely necessary. The Blue crew is virtually the same combination today that rowed against Pennsylvania in a snow story on April 3.
 Harvard has shifted a sweep swing CTS more frequently, but the varsity eight as seclected by Coach Wray for today's race contains no eleventh hour choices. The Crimson will have a slight advantage in veteran material with race experience, for in addition to the men who rowed in the long race last year Wray had the splendid sec ond eight of 1914 from which to re- cruit This crew, which won from Yale easily last June and then went to Eng land and captured the Grand Chal- Ienge Cup at Henley, has furnished several experienced oars for the 1915 varsity, including the stroke.
 Unless weather conditions interfere the regatta will be run off in a manner similar to last year. The varsity four mile race will be rowed upstream. starting from the railroad bridge and finishing in Bartlett's Cove close to the west bank of the Thames. The two preliminary regatta events will be rowed in the forenoon and only the lower reaches of the course will be used. The second or substitutes var course from the Navy Yard to the railroad bridge. starting at 1915 a. m. The freshman eights will race over the same stretch of water thirty minutes later.
 The history of the Yale-Harvard crew regattas dates back to 1852 when the first of the interVarsity races was held on Lake Winnipiseogee at Cen ter Harbor, N. H. This contest was really an interclass affair in which Harvard's '53 class crew defeated the Yale eight in two mile row in barges, the time being approximately ten minutes. Three years later on the Connectucut river at Springfield Harvard eight pared and four cared barges raced against two Yale six cared boats the Crimson barges fin ishing one, two in the three mile race, In 1859 two chells and two barges rep resented, informally, the two univer- sites at Worcester, Mass, in three mile race. Again the Cambridge oars men won both classes, but he next day Yale reversed the result of the shell race in the Citizens Regatta. The fol- lowing summer crews raced over the same course, Harvard winning. The civil war put a stop to the sport until 1864, when the series was renewed and continued until 1870 over the Lake Quinsigamond three mile course at Worcester.
 In 1871 Harvard. aided by Brown, Amherst and Bowdoin, organized the Rowing Association of American Col leges, and a three mile straightaway race was rowed at Springfield Yale did not compete that year, but enter ed in 1872, and the entries grew in until in 1855 there were thir- teen crews at the starting line: an American record which still stands after forty years of college rowing. in 1876 Yale and Harvard inauguated their four mile dual regat- tas. rowing at Springfield. Two years later the course was shifted to the Thames at New London, where the re- gattas have been held annually, with one or two exceptions since, forming