Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1915 — ROWING FINE FOR SCHOOLBOYS, SAYS COACH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ROWING FINE FOR SCHOOLBOYS, SAYS COACH

Guy Nickalls, the Yale rowing coach, is a pronounced advocate of - rowing for schoolboys, believing that it will develop them from undersized weaklings to men of strength. This he considers is proved by the case of the English schoolboys, who are, benefited by participation in the sport. In speaking of the subject, he said: "I was from a physical standpoint an excellent example of what rowing could do for an undersized weakling. At twelve years of age I weighed only 70 pounds. I began rowing at. fourteen, when about eighty pounds in weight, and steadily gained in weight, until at twenty I weighed 170. I am an example of thousands in England of what regular rowing exercise will do for an undersized boy. It also has the advantage of other sports in that a lot of rowing exercise can be put through in a very short space of time, so that it will not interfere in any way

with the boy’s regular school studies. “School rowing in England is, it is generally agreed, a greater factor in the physical development of youth than any other exercise so far cultivated. The chief schools in England which make a specialty of this form of athletics are Eton, Rugby, Shrewsbury, Redford, Beaumont, Westminster, Winchester, and others which are situated near suitable water for this purpose. So far as statistics can be relied upon no heart or lung trouble or permanent muscular strain can be directly attributed to this form of athletic sport, and I may say that it has been generally recognized in England, at least, that since the exercise of rowing makes use of and develops every muscle in the body, it does more to cultivate the growth and to develop the chest and generally benefit the growing youth than any other form of athletic exercise.”

Guy Nickalls, Ya le Rowing Coach.