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Show I I VETERAN ROWER V TO COACH YALE Experiment With English System Sys-tem a Failure Harriman Suggests Former Tutor. j New York, N. Y., N'ov. 11. James I ; 1 W. Ten Kyck, the veteran rowing I : ' coach at Syracuse, will be engaged to ' ' , coach the Yale crews next spring, ac 1 1 ; cording to gossip in sporting circles I ', ! here. A meeting of the Yale row-I row-I ing committee will be held iu this j ' city within a few clays and it is ex-1 ex-1 pected a radical change in the Yale I navy will be announced. Including the engagement of Ten Eyck. Yale's experiment during the last few seasons with the English system I or rowing haB been deemed generally a failure, as the Eli crews have been II consistently defei l bi Harvard On ly two weeks ago Yalo'B English 1 stroke again proved Ineffectual I against Princeton on Luke Carnegie I Alumni and undergraduates are said j J to have been aroused In opposition to further experiments with the Enj-llsh Enj-llsh system which has Included the adoption of English shells and English Eng-lish oars, as well as English training methods. It comes from unofficial I circles that W. A Harriman of New j York, who Is the head coach at Yale, has himself came to the conclusion that the English stroke will not dj The veteran Ten Eyck is one of the young Harriman tutors, and it is said Harriman himself has suggested the selection of the Syracuse professional. profes-sional. If Ten Eyck is engaged, his position will be one by which he wlU work In conjunction with graduate coaches, although he would probably ave full say in the rowing policy. |