Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-13
CHANGE
FOR VARSITY CREWS
WHEN SEASON OPENS
Yale and Harvard Discard Old
Coach and Drop English
System.

New York, Sept. 12.-Conditions will
be radically changed next spring. when
the varsity crews of eastern colleges
take to the water. Never in the his
tory of eastern collegiate rowing has
so complete a revolution been effected
as the one which has just subsidized
after Earring three varsity crew coaches
loose from their moorings.
Princeton, Cornell, Syracuse, Colum-
bia and Penn are the only eastern col
leges which have not been affected by
the wholesale transfer of coaches.
Yale has dropped the Corderry broth
ers for Ed Leader. youthful Univer-
sity of Washington coach, who brought
a great coast crew to Poughkeepsle
last summer. Harvard will soon dis
card DIR. r. Heber Howe, last years
director of rowing. in favor OF Ed
Brown. former Harvard athlete. The
veteran Dick Glendon. after IL years
in Annapolis aquatic harness, has re
signed from his post at the Naval
academy. and young Dick. his son, has
assumed the reins of authority.
Desert English System
The installation of new coaches az
Yale and Harvard. is unusually signlti-
cant. Both of these colleges have been
persistent advocates of the English
system of rigging and coaching. Their
abandonment of these mosS-bound prIn-
ciples and the substitution of American
methods and American coaches is a
CHEEKY assurance that nils we'll with
the collegiate marine world.
The Corderry brothers, following the
footsteps of the monarchistic Guy
Wickalls, made a frightful mess of
things at Yale last year, and developed
one of the s~orriest crews ever boated
in a major regatta. The decision to
adopt American methods at New Haven
was the direct aftermath of the Cor
derrys' failure to successfully graft an
~antiquated system upOn boys not fltted
by training or inclination for the long,
deliberate s%culling stroke of the Ok
ford and Cambridge varsity Fights.
May Desert Poughkeepsie
Another big change. which will prob
ably materialize during the winter
months, is the transferred of the in
tercollegiate regatta from the classic
P~oughkeepsie course to some otner
eastern waterway. P~oughkeepsie
townspeople and civic authorities have
been lax in playing host to their col
lege visitors in recent years, and IT is
the consensus that a cnangc OF SC'htfE
would be mutually beneficial. Now thu
the regatta and its consequent bust
ness boom is about to pass from Pough-
keepsie, that sleepy municipality is at
tempting to move heaven and earth IN
it's effort to have the intercollegiate
stewards reverse their decision.
just how this affair will terminate
is open to question. but it is almost
an assured fact that the intercollegiate
championship will be decided over a
four-mile. rather than a three-mile
course next June. regardless of where
the race is staged. Sentiment in
clines to the four-mile distance, the
original distance of this classic, and II
will be no surprise to see this change
effected at the annual meeting of the
stewards this fall.
Princeton. Syracuse, Cornell. Colum-
bia and Penn will pick up the rowing
threads right where they left off last
summer. when the roll call is called II
the spring. DR.. Duncan Spaeth will
continue as coach at Princeton. jim
Ten Eyck will still rule the waves al
Syracuse, Jim Rice will be at Columbia
John Hoyle at Cornell and Joe Wright
at Penn.