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Show COURTNEY WAS I GREATEST COACH The late Chailes Courtney, crew coach at Cornell for many years, and one of the best known men in American Amer-ican Intercollegiate rowing circles, was (always reaoj to place credit where' . I credit was due. even though such a ,' procedure did nol favor him. Thei . story has been told by Courtney manj t;mes. that much of his success in the j' lowing sport should be credited to i Thomas Hall, captain and stroke of ' the Cornell varsity of 1895. In that ear Courtney was bothered I to analyze the stroke of the Cornell 'jcrew. lie wanted to ascertain at Just I what point in the pull the heaviest part of the stroke came He knewi what he wanton, oui ne was unaoicj to flRure his plan out He took his problem to Hall and the young man Immediately suggested the use of thej dynamometer, which ho later rigged! up to record the stroke. MNV HOI KS Of TOILu Some argument was necessary be-; fere the instrument was secured from the laboratory, and after it was ob-Ii.med ob-Ii.med Hall and Courtney w re obliged to toll ninny hours before they ar-j mnRed It Just as they wanted It, or be-1 fore it would do Just the stunt Coach Courtney exacted of It. Finally success crowned their ef-l ifcrts. and the delicate Instrument reg-j tsiered the pull of tho stroke and showed Courtney the 111 effect of the s6tem ho had been teaching. He changed his plans Immediately, and Cornell s success after that time is now history. Courtney always gave Hall great credit for this work, and declared he learned more about rowing row-ing in that experiment than he had learned In tho 15 years before that time. TESTING. Hall and Courtney wrc the first to lire the dynamometer In testing the lull of a rowing crew, but since that tlmo others have used It and some hixve greatly Improved upon the crude but accurate arrangement that the Cornell pair Invented. Courtney was a great believer In the use of science In every thing, but his lack of education edu-cation along scientific lines handlcap- ' f ped him In many Instances, although I he usually worked out his plans after much perseverance. While Coach Courtney was a stickler stic-kler for uniformity of pull in the stroke, he always advocated permitting permit-ting the oarsmen to adopl their own natural positions. Although not In favor fa-vor of the English stroke as used by ale. Courtney did a great deal of experimenting ex-perimenting with It before he f--4Jy iannounced his position |