YALE'S MOVE FOR UNITY,
Dr. E. F. Gallaudet Appointed Crew
Coach—Graduate Assistance,
Captain F: W. Allen announced on
Friday the system of coaching which is
to be followed in the development of
the University Crew this year. On
Thursday evening, Mr. W. W. Skiddy
of New York City gave a dinner at
the Yale Club to eighteen alumni who
were actively interested in rowing, at
which Captain Allen presented his plan
and the situation was discussed.
Dr. E. F. Gallaudet, ’93, is to act as
head coach and, with Captain Allen,
DR. EDSON F. GALLAUDET, 793.
Appointed Head Coach of Yale Crew.
will take charge of the training of the
candidates’ Dr. Gallaudet was stroke ©
on the Ninety-Two and Ninety-Three
Crews, and is at present an Instructor
in Physics in the Academic Depart-
ment, an appointment which he received
in 1897. In addition to Dr. Gallaudet
the following alumni have consented
to spend as much time as possible with
the crew during the Winter and Spring:
Alfred Cowles, ’86; Dr. John Rogers,
87; Percy Bolton, ’89 S.; G. S. Brews-
ter, ‘Ol-o; + te. $: A.- Hartwell; -"02'S::
Dr. S. B. Ives, 93; F. A. Johnson,
94 S.; R. Armstrong, ’95S.; George
Langford, ’97S.; Payne Whitney, ’98,
and J. O. Rodgers, ’o98.
It is planned to have at least one
from the above list with the crew each
week, and the fact that a head coach is
in control will assure the maintain-
ance of a fixed policy in the Crew’s
development.
Captain Allen saw Mr. R. J. Cook last
Summer and talked over the possibil-
ity of his return as coach this year.
Mr. Cook said that it would be impos-
sble for him to be with the Crew
through the season. In reply to a
proposition that he return to New Ha-
ven in time to take charge of the final
rounding off, he said he had: concluded
that it would be bett2r for him to
carry out his original plan and spend
this year abroad.
The candidates for the University
Crew begin work on Thursday of this
week. The training at present will be
confined to practice in the tanks and
short daily runs.
YATT ALUMNI WEEKLY
Rowing Correspondence,
On Wednesday evening, Jan. 18 a
brief despatch was received by Captain
Higginson of the Harvard University
Crew from Captain Fisher of the Cor-
nell University Crew, declining the final
invitation from Harvard and Yale to
join them in a triangular boat race at
New London on: June 29, or such other
date as should be agreeable to Cornell.
It is generally agreed that Cornell’s
reply has settled the rowing situation
for 1899, although Cornell has the
privilege of reversing her decision and
entering the race if she should see fit
to do so at a later date.
Cornell’s replies have been brief and
no specific causes for her refusal have
been stated in the official correspond-
ence. Hence the “several reasons” re-
ferred to in Captain Fisher’s first letter
are not definitely known, although un-
official reports from Ithaca attribute the
decision to Cornell’s general objections
to the New London course and to the
fact that the proposed arrangement
would conflict with her desire to meet
Pennsylvania, Columbia, and possibly
Wisconsin, this Spring.
The rowing negotiations for this sea-
son began with an agreement between
Yale and Harvard to invite Cornell to
join the race prescribed by the five-years’
agreement existing between these two
Colleges. Because of the identity of
. their interests and in order to simplify
the negotiations, it was decided to leave
the correspondence in the hands of the
Harvard Navy. Shortly afterwards
Captain Higginson and Captain Fisher
met and discussed the plan. informally.
The result was the following letter to
Capt. Fisher of Cornell:
“Cambridge, Dec. 1, 1808.
“Mr cS: * ia. Fisher, Captain Cornell
Waxy; Tthaca, Noy.
“My Dear Sir—I have seen Mr.
Allen, of Yale, and told him the gist
of my conversation with you. We
both feel very positive against enter-
ing any race with a large number of
crews. We are both of us exceedingly
anxious to arrange a race with you, and
we should both be equally sorry if the
pleasant relations that have existed for
the last two or three years were to be
broken off. I speak for Yale in this
matter, for it was decided that Harvard
should manage all the negotiations for
a triangular race in 1890.
“Neither Yale nor Harvard ca. row
a race before June 29th, owing to con-
fliction with college dates and rules;
and since we want this race to take
place as soon as possible we should like
to row on Thursday, the 29th of June,
thus giving two days leeway in case of
postponement.
“We also favor New Londsn rather
than Poughkeepsie because the training
facilities are better there than at Pough-
keepsie, and, further, I believe that the
course at New London, though not
straight, is rather fairer than at Pough-
keepsie. I also think that if you were
to row two races, New London would
be the better place to row them than
at _Poughkeepsie, for the men always
seem to recuperate much faster at New
London.
“Therefore, Yale and Harvard wish
to know if Cornell would like an in-
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