New Coach

Rarely does an important coach, in an important college, resign his job. Still less often does such a coach resign in midseason, without any premonitory public rumbling of trouble. Yet when Edward A. Stevens, head rowing coach at Harvard, resigned last week, with the Yale race at New London only three weeks off, he gave as reason only the cryptic statement: "Lack of co-operation on the part of the crew . . ." His resignation was accepted. Next day Herbert H. Haines, coach of the freshman crews, was appointed in his place.

Coach Stevens went to Harvard in 1923 from the Portland (Ore.)

Boat Club. He sat in the Cornell varsity eights of 1908 and 1909, went to Portland highly recommended. His Harvard crew did badly last year. This season it has competed in two regattas, beaten Princeton, and (last week) finished second to the navy, but ahead of Cornell and M. I. T.

Coach Haines' freshman eight has beaten all comers this year; is called "best since the War."