Norwich bulletin., 1921-06-22
GU1. NIcKALLs TELLS WHY
YALE DISMISSED HIM

YALE DISMISSED HIM
 In 2 letter published in the New York Times, former Coach Guy Nickalls of Yale crews discusses conditions in Yale rowing and makes charges of the way he was treated. About 8 week ago, all most on the eve Of the Yale-Harvard race on the Thames, the Yale rowing au- thorities announced that Coach Nickalls had resigned. The next day the coach made the statement that he had been fired.
 The following is the letter, with two sections left out for reasons not explain ed:
 New Haven. Conn, June 10, 1921 To the Chairman the Yale Athletic Board of Control:
 Dear Sir: I cannot help thinking that some explanation is due me for my sud- den and unexpected dismissal from my position as head coach of the Yale row ing squad from your board. have, so far, only heard of three charges against me, and they are: No. That had lost faith iH the crew. That, I need hardly say, is a falsehood.
 No. 2-That the crew had lost faith in me. I do not think that the ca ptain's word should have been taken for that without a fair, open and impartial in quiry being made into it, more espec- ially as the captain and coxswain had approached every member of the varsity crew with propa ganda against me with out my being heard in my own defense. l No. S-That I had written the follow 1 ing words: The crew rowed a gutless race at Ithaca. I can teach a man to l row, but I cannot give him guts.' admit writing them and maintain they are true in substance and fact, and very many Yale men who saw the race were of the same opinion and expressed | it to me. Seeing the nervous condition 1 of the crew, with Whitney in tears and Leslie, the stroke completely knocked out as result of Tap day, it would | have been surprising had they shown any punch; and I may add that the words complained of were written in a private letter to my brother in England, and three of my personal private letters were turned over and read from begin ming to end by some member of the squad to make this charge on. Any i'm ! partial man who cares to make himself acquainted with the facts cannot fafl to admit that I have had a raw, unjust and foul deal
 After my resignation last year was | asked to come back and take the joo on again, and I accepted it on the sole understanding that I was to be judged | on the result of the Harvard-Yale race, and on no other, and now I am prevent ] ed from making good, as ] should surely 1 have done, as I have been building up i this crew slowly but surely for a. four mile race, which they can win easily unless Corderry who never vet handled crew ruins them. (Corderry, as you may know, was chosen by me for his ability to teach clements and first prin- ciples)
 Some HandicapS. ! Surely l should have been judged Ton the result of my seasons work and not dismissed until it was finished. should like to explain also, Mir. Mendell, some of the handicaps under which 1 have worked during the last few months.
 1 No 1-I have had no say in the sched- ule of races to be rowed, of their num-
 Der or dates, but am ordered to do my
 part, with heavy program and weak i squad
 No 2-Having entered a crew and finding it not up to a standard for row ing, I am not allowed to withdraw it,
 as other coaches in this country are.
 was not allowed to withdraw my junior varsity against Columbia, but Rice was
 allowed to withdraw his freshmen.
 No. 3-When I wanted to take my squad down to Cornell and give them 2 chance of seeing the course and of put ting them on an equal footing with
 Princeton, I was forbidden to by Fred Allen and Captain Steve Hord. and what 1 I know would have been best for the crew I was not allowed to do. It Is a
 very unfortunate thing that both these