Includes photographs of the Cornell crew team racing (1900-1902), as well as team photographs and photographs of John Francis rowing. Correspondence and clippings relate to the Francis/Courtney dispute. Francis had turned down coaching by Courtney and hired a different coach, Ten Eyck, to train him for a single scull race in Poughkeepsie. This led to members of the Varsity Eight refusing to participate if Francis would represent Cornell. He ended up withdrawing his entry. Correspondents include Jacob Gould Schurman, Robert H. Treman, William Henry Miller, Charles Ezra Cornell, L. Seaman, John Ostrom, Hugh Troy, Theodore Roosevelt, E.A. Fuertes,