A wealthy Yale alum single-handedly financed and coached the swimming team

Evidence

But Reid, who had been Yale’s first great swimmer, not only paid the team’s expenses but, week after week, traveled up to New Haven from New York to do the coaching himself. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 18

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A single treasurer’s personal priorities steered all of Yale athletics funding — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 181