Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1918 — FELT SORRY FOR NO. 4 OAR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FELT SORRY FOR NO. 4 OAR

Coach Ride of Columbia Tells Story of Football Player Pressed Into Service as Oarsman. Jim Rice, coach of Columbia’s crews, tells a story of a football player in an eastern college who was pressed into service as an oarsman. The first day the embryo oarsman reported for practice it seemed that everything he

did was wrong. He had been assigned to row No. 5 in the boat, and all he heard from the coach during the afternoon was: -■* “Hey! No. 5, you bonehead —Don’t hold your oar like that!” or “No. 5! How many times do I have to tell you not to place your feet like that?" The following day he was moved down one position in the boat, but didn’t do any better, and the coach nagged at him continually. That night a friend asked him how he was getting along with his rowing. “Well,” he replied,/*! had a tough time the first day and got bawled out a lot, but I did fine today. I feel sorry for No. 4, whoever he is, because the coach rode him to beat the band today.”

Coach Jim Rice.