Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 281, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1913 — YALE NEWS WANTS COACHES [ARTICLE]

YALE NEWS WANTS COACHES

College Paper Says Competent Instruction Will Make Winning Teams—Distrusts System. Referring to the defeat of the Yale crew at Princeton, the Yale Dally makes a vigorous demand for a new coaching system. It declares the loss of the race to the Tigers has produced a torrent of criticism that proves complete distrust in the present system, that the rowing authorities perceive the imperative need of a competent coach, that the present coaches admit their failure and that the graduate rowing committee must forsake sentimentality and find somebody who can savt Yale crews “from jests and insults.” The undergraduate body is agreed, the News says, that “the difficult English stroke, as taught by youthful amateur coaches, has failed,” and the undergraduates are not alone in this belief. The English stroke was brought here by Averill Harriman, son of the late E. H. Harriman. “The rowing authorities,” continues the News, "realize how imperative Is a competent coach, who can teach a stroke which does not require a life of galley, slaving.” i